Current Students
HDR Students
- Lucas Hoefs - PhD student (commenced 2025), co-supervised with Dr. Hui Xie and Dr. Senjian An, Thesis: Robust and Efficient Robotic Navigation in Complex, Dynamic Environments
Honours/Final-Year Project Students
- Lachlan Raffan - Honours student (commenced Semester 2, 2025), Project: Design of a Modular Robotic Hand with Integrated Tactile Sensing
- Austin Suwandi - Honours student (commenced Semester 2, 2025), Project: Duplication and Application of Hugging Face LeRobot SO-101 Arm with SmolVLA for Robotic Grasping and Manipulation
- Campbell Lamont - Honours student (commenced Semester 2, 2025), Project: Development and Application of eFlesh for Robotic Grasping and Manipulation of Delicate Objects
- Md Sihab Uddin - Master’s final-year project student (commenced Semester 2, 2025), Project: Edge AI for Real-time Hazard Prediction in Underground Mines
Alumni
HDR Students
- Robert Lee - QUT PhD graduate (2023), co-supervised with Prof. Peter Corke, Thesis: Learning Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects in the Real World, now a Research Engineer at Woven by Toyota
Honours/Final-Year Project Students
- George Calvert - Curtin Honours graduate (2025), co-supervised with Prof. Cesar Ortega-Sanchez, Thesis: Implementation of a Neural Network on a FPGA Borad
- Kristopher Toombs - QUT Honours graduate (2024), Thesis: Humanoid Robotic Hand Dexterity - V1 DexHand Replication, now a Graduate Project Engineer at Golden Cockerel
- Joseph Turner - QUT Honours graduate (2024), Thesis: Assessing First Person Perspective Robotic Grasping via Wireless Instrumented Objects, now a Control System Engineer at Witthoft Engineering
- Liguo Zhu - QUT Master’s graduate (2023), Thesis: Comparing Tactile Sensors for Object Property Estimation and Incipient Slip Detection, now a Machine Learning Engineer at CTM
- Maceon Knopke - QUT Honours graduate (2023), Thesis: Artificial Compliant Objects for Benchmarking Robotic Manipulation, now a Research Assistant at QCR
- Stephen Wardle - QUT Honours graduate (2023), Thesis: Exploring Solutions to Achieve In-Hand Dexterous Manipulation/Rotation for Visuo-Tactile Robotics, now a Graduate Engineer at Aurecon
- Taylor Vogt - QUT Honours graduate (2023), Thesis: Simulation Baselines for Compliant Object Manipulation and Tactile Sensing Applications, now a Professional Mechanical Engineer at AECOM
- Luke Ringsgwandl - QUT Honours graduate (2022)
- Linh Vu - QUT Honours graduate (2022)
Research Internship Students
- Tim De Keijzer - Research Intern at QUT and Master’s student at Eindhoven University of Technology (2023), now a Mechatronics Designer at Philips