I am a senior research scientist in the Haptic Intelligence Department who works on a variety of projects related to robotic manipulation, haptic user interfaces and human behavior analysis. As a senior member of the group, I also provide technical and scientific support to other members of our department.

I completed my undergraduate degree (in Cybernetics and Control Systems) and Masters degree (in Engineering and Information Systems) at the University of Reading (UK, close to London), under the guidance of Prof. William Harwin, Prof. Peter Kyberd and Prof. Kevin Warwick. My PhD, in synthesizing human-like motion for humanoid robots using non-linear control approaches, was completed at the University of Bristol (UK) and Bristol Robotics Laboratory with Dr. Guido Herrmann. The majority of my thesis is now available as a book published by Springer.

Following my PhD I worked as a post-doc at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and University of West of England on investigating haptics for use in medical robotics. In 2014 I began a Postdoc at Yale University in the USA in the lab of Prof. Aaron Dollar. Here I worked on a variety of projects related to upper limb prosthetics, robot manipulator design and shape-changing haptic devices for navigation. I later became an Associate Research Scientist in that lab.

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