I'm currently a postdoc at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), in the Department of Computer Sciences. I work in the Learning Agents Research Group led by Peter Stone and spend research in the general area of Machine Learning and Robotics, some of the projects I'm working on are:


I'm also a member / attendee of a few reading groups which 'may' contain some interesting papers to read:


In 2006 I received my Phd "Machine Learning on AIBO Robots" from the The University of Newcastle, Australia under the supervision of Stephan Chalup and Rick Middleton. During my time at Newcastle I competed in 6 RoboCups as part of the NUbots four-legged team, finishing 1st in 2006, 2nd in 2005, 2007 and 3rd in 2002,2003 and 2004. More information can be found in my biography and by looking at my publications.

Latest News

SEPTEMBER - 2008
I went to Ireland for a couple of weeks to work with Rick Middleton and Daniel Gohring on different localisation techniques: Mutli-modal Extended Kalman Fitlers, Particle Fiters and Unscented Kalman Filters.

JULY - 2008
UT Austin Villa finished 4th in AIBO league and made QF in the Nao league at Robocup in Suzhou. Not bad considering we had two people for two teams. Next year the Nao league will be ours !

27 - MAY - 2008
UT Austin Villa finished 2nd at the US Open in the Aibo League, and we did a lot of work in the Nao workshop.

15 - APRIL - 2008
Our Nao robot arrived, although the OS is broken. UPDATE - It's now working and we have a second robot!

04 - APRIL - 2008
Waiting for our Nao robots! Here is a teaser video

MARCH - 2008
Continuing to develop a RoboCup curriculum for the Bootstrap Learning Project.

14 - DECEMBER - 2007
Got the simulator for the Nao robots that we will use this year at RoboCup.

14 - DECEMBER - 2007
Got the simulator for the Nao robots that we will use this year at RoboCup.

3 - NOVEMBER - 2007
Competed at the DARPA Urban Challenge, finishing somewhere beteen 11th and 20th.

9 - AUGUST - 2007
Austin Robot Technology officially made the National Qualification Event for the DARPA Urban Challenge.

16 - JULY - 2007
Today I offically started as a post-doc at The University of Texas at Austin.

10 - JULY - 2007
The NUbots came second in the Four-Legged league at RoboCup 2007.

Current Research

Bootstrap Learning

RoboCup Soccer

Autonomous Vehicles