Dr. Yvan Petillot is a full Professor of Robotics and Computer Vision at Heriot-Watt University. He is a leading member of the Oceans Systems Laboratory, the deputy director of the Institute for Sensor Signals and Systems and the deputy director of the joint research institute in Signal and Image Processing (ERP-SIP) with Edinburgh University. He is also currently a Royal Society Industry Fellow in collaboration with SeeByte Ltd, a company he co-founded in 2001 and in which he was Chief Technical Officer until 2010.

Dr. Yoann Altmann conducts his research within the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences. His current research activities focus on statistical signal and image processing, with a particular interest in Bayesian inverse problems with applications to remote sensing and biomedical imaging, photon-starved imaging and particle detection.

Dr. Fernando Auat Cheein is an Associate Professor in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, UK National Robotarium, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, and holds the Full Professor position at Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Valparaiso, Chile. He has published more than 100 journal articles, several conference papers and applied (and granted) several patents. He is the author of two books and editor of other two. He is associate editor of Computers in Electronics in Agriculture, Biosystems Engineering (both Q1 journals in the field), Robotica-Cambridge, Journal of Field Robotics and IEEE OJ on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is also technical editor of ASME/IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics and IEEE Senior Member since 2021. His graduates are academics or researchers in several universities around the world, including University of Lincoln (UK), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), UC Davis (USA) and several universities from Chile and Ecuador. His research interests are: robotics/mechatronics and perception in agriculture, electrically powered machinery, motion control systems and remote sensing applied to biosystems. He is currently recruiting new PhD students.

Dr. Keith Brown is an Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University.
Research Topics: bio-inspired sonar systems for improved sensing solutions for underwater vehicles; and in intelligent diagnostic systems and how they can be used to help improve autonomy.

Dr. Matthew Dunnigan’s background is in the area of modelling, control and parameter estimation of dynamic systems and he has over twenty years of relevant experience. He is a graduate of Glasgow University (BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and Heriot-Watt University (MSc in Digital Techniques and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and his research has concentrated on the development and implementation of adaptive, state-space, neural/fuzzy and nonlinear control methods applied to different application domains (robotic manipulators/underwater vehicles, heave compensators, electric motors, laser cutting and electrodynamic actuators). Control techniques researched include self-tuning adaptive, nonlinear sliding-mode, fuzzy/neural, state-space estimators and adaptive inverse control.

Dr. Mauro Dragone is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Physical Science. Dr. Dragone has worked on EU projects in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) for smart environments, before leading the EU FP7 project RUBICON (Robotic UBIquitous Cognitive Network, FP7-ICT-269914, 2011-2014), a 2.5 million EUR project that has posed the foundations for self-adaptive robotic systems for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications.

Dr. Mustafa Suphi Erden is an associate professor at Heriot-Watt University and specialises in assistive and medical robotics, physical human-robot interaction, and automation with robots. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in 1999, 2001, and 2006. Between 1999 and 2006, he was a Research Assistant in the same department. From 2007 to 2012 he was a postdoctoral researcher, successively in Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; in Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées-ParisTech, France; in Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie – Paris 6, France. In 2012 he received the European Union Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship with his project “Skill Assistance with Robot for Manual Welding” . Between 2012 and 2014, he was with Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, with this fellowship. He is now an Associate Professor with the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include physical human-robot interaction, assistive robotics, skill assistance, mechatronics design, medical robotics, manufacturing, automation, marine robotics, control, machine learning, and social robotics. He has been the recipient of research funding of around £1.4M by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UK and £200K by industry, as the PI and Co-I of the research projects.

Dr. Carlos Mastalli is an Assistant Professor in the National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University. He is the head of the Robot Motor Intelligence (RoMI) lab, which focuses on creating motor intelligence in legged robots. Carlos is specialized in legged robotics, optimal control and numerical optimization, and has pioneering work in these fields such as Crocoddyl (an open-source library). Before joining Heriot-Watt University, he conducted cutting-edge research in several world-leading labs: the Italian Institute of Technology (Italy), LAAS-CNRS (France), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and the University of Edinburgh (UK). He completed his thesis in 2017 under the topic “Planning and Execution of Dynamic Whole-Body Locomotion on Challenging Terrain”. Carlos also led and drove important deliverables in the EU MEMMO and Orcahub projects, he is also leading the steering committed of Crocoddyl.

Dr. Maria Koskinopoulou is currently an Assistant Professor in Robotics and Computer Vision at the Institute of Signals, Sensors and Systems (ISSS), of the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences (EPS), of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. She holds a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSc in Computational Neuroscience and PhD in Computer Science. Her interests and expertise are in the areas of Computer Vision and Machine (Deep) Learning, Robotic Manipulation and Smart Medical Devices. She was recently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Biomedical Robotics Laboratory, of Advanced Robotics Department of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), focusing on robotic manipulators and sensory systems applied to surgical scenarios while designing and developing smart medical devices for both intravenous catheterization processes and cancer tissue identification. She has considerable experience in large RTD projects that regard integrated robotics systems. Up to now, she has been involved in various projects related to robotic arms and the relevant object manipulations via those arms, working, at the same time, on the core of Human-Robot Interaction, Vision-guided Systems for Abnormal Tissue Detection, AI algorithms for Industrial Robotic Applications, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Deep Learning technologies.

Dr. Ignacio Carlucho is currently an Assistant Professor in Robotics, Computer Vision and Autonomous Systems at Heriot-Watt University. His research focuses on the development of intelligent robots that can perform complex tasks in real-world environments. Particularly, he is interested in robots that can cooperate with other agents. He obtained his PhD in 2019 from the National University of Central Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University, USA, from 2020 to 2021. He then held a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, from 2021 to 2023.

Dr. Chen Wang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.  His research activities focus on safe and trustworthy autonomous systems. Specifically, I am interested in adversarial testing and agent behavior modeling for simulation-based testing, explainable AI and runtime monitoring for AI safety, and digital twin and scenario mining for safety validation.