Speakers

Expert Speakers

Jen Jen Chung (University of Queensland)

Jen Jen Chung is an Associate Professor in Mechatronics within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland. Her current research interests include perception, planning and learning for robotic mobile manipulation, algorithms for robot navigation through human crowds, informative path planning and adaptive sampling. Prior to working at UQ, Jen Jen was a Senior Researcher in the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) at ETH Zürich from 2018-2022 and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Oregon State University researching multiagent learning methods from 2014-2017. She completed her Ph.D. on information-based exploration-exploitation strategies for autonomous soaring platforms at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics in the University of Sydney. She received her Ph.D. (2014) and B.E. (2010) from the University of Sydney.

Koh Hosoda (Kyoto University)

Koh Hosoda is a Japanese robotics professor. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Kyoto University and is a Professor Emeritus at Osaka University. He has developed robotic arms and three-dimensional passive walking using pneumatic artificial rubber muscles. He is engaged in research on constructive intelligence, humanoid robots, and soft robotics. He is known for his work on a baby robot that learns to crawl, a cadaver-legged/artificial musculoskeletal hybrid robot, and the dog-like robot "PneuHound". He also has a track record in flexible arms and visual servoing. He has served as an assistant professor and associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, a professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, and the editor-in-chief of the Japanese Robotics Society's "Advanced Robotics" magazine. As of April 2023, he is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (Advanced Systems Science and Engineering Division).

Chris Lehnert (Queensland University of Technology)

Associate Proffesor Christopher Lehnert completed his PhD at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Following his doctoral studies, he remained at QUT as a post-doctoral researcher and now serves as a Senior Lecturer in Robotics and Chief Investigator at both the QUT Centre for Robotics and the Australian Cobotics Centre. He has been involved in numerous innovative projects, including Moving to See, Reaching in Clutter using Force and Tactile Feedback, A robotic site-specific crop and weed management tool and the development of Harvey, the Robotic Capsicum Harvester. One of the early highlights of his career was participating and winning the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. He led the now-completed Robotic Vertical Farming Systems project for the Future Food Systems CRC and has also completed the Autonomous Robotic Platforms for Greenhouses project, a collaboration with national vegetable grower and FFSCRC industry partner P’Petual Holdings. He is now leading exciting work in developing a robotic banana de-handing system in the project Banana Dehanding Tech.

Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay (CSIRO)

Tirthankar is a Team Leader of Robotic Autonomy Team under the Cyber Physical Systems Program of D61 at CSIRO. He established the Robot-World Interaction theme at CSIRO Robotics, Data61, which looks at manipulation and mobile manipulation for field and indoor robots to assist humans in the lab and field environments. He loves working towards solving the mobility challenges for robots in cluttered, dynamic and complex 3-D environments. He is involved on addressing the mobility challenges for: (a) field mobile manipulation for physical interaction with deformable environments (vegetation, soil, etc); (b) magnetic foot climbing robots for industrial and confined space inspection (Magneto project); (c) heritage monitoring using modular field robots in Peel Island (off the coast of Brisbane, Australia); (d) a 30-DoF legged robot capable of deforming its body configuration to traverse narrow passage in confined spaces; (e) autonomous kayaks for environmental monitoring in choppy and busy Singapore Harbour; (f) mobility-on-demand service with autonomous vehicles in busy and crowded Singapore roads; (g) remote operations with autonomous vehicles for an O&G plant in Australia; and (h) people following with service robots in crowded canteen environments in NUS campus.

Young Speakers

Andre Farinha (CSIRO)

Andre is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Robotics. He has previously worked at Malloy Aeronautics Ltd., EMPA, and Imperial College London. His research interests include Soft and Deformable Robots, Aeronautics, and Machine Learning.

Ge Shi (CSIRO)

Ge Shi is a CERC Fellow at CSIRO. His work primarily focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, soft robotics, and meta-materials, specializing in the gap between computer simulations and real-world robotic applications (Sim2Real).

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