About Me

I am a DPhil (PhD) student in Robotics & AI at the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Ioannis Havoutis at the Dynamic Robot Systems Group at the Oxford Robotics Institute, and Professor Alessandro Abate at the Department of Computer Science. I am also proud to be a student in the AIMS CDT.

My research is at the intersection of robotics and neuro-symbolic AI, combining symbolic reasoning with data-driven learning to enable robots to operate efficiently yet safely in the real world.

I am particularly interested in long-horizon manipulation tasks in unstructured scenes, such as domestic environments. To address this, my current work leverages logic-guided reinforcement learning to develop robot behaviors that can generalize across language-based instructions while safely adapting to preempt failure.

Prior to my DPhil, I graduated from the University of Oxford with a MEng (First Class) in Engineering Science in 2023. My Master’s thesis was on loco-manipulation skills for quadruped robots with arms, and I developed adaptive task- and motion-planners for industrial manipulation tasks such as tightening a valve, ultimately deploying on a real robot in the lab.

I have a great passion for robotics; I believe that robots have the potential to revolutionise the modern world for the betterment of society, and I hope that my work will help realize this future.

Experience

Through my work I have developed extensive practical and theoretical experience across AI, robotics and cyber-physical systems. I am familiar with industry-standard software libraries for robotics and machine learning, and I have worked with robots of various morphologies in both simulation and on hardware. My research has also involved integrating perception, planning, and control modules into complete autonomous systems, and applying learning-based approaches to enable robots to operate in unstructured environments.

I have led and contributed to a range of projects (both research and applied) in collaborative team settings. During my undergraduate degree I worked with a team of fellow students to design an autonomous service robot for laundry collection in domestic settings, and as project leader for the OxRAM student society Robot Arm Project, I oversaw the design, 3D printing, assembly, and programming of a robotic arm for simple manipulation tasks. I also co-supervise Master’s projects in Robotics & AI alongside my DPhil supervisors.