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Bio
Current Position
July 2007 onwards - Postdoc Researcher
The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Education
2006 - Completed my PhD “Machine Learning on AIBO Robots”.
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
My supervisors were Stephan Chalup and Rick Middleton
2000 - Completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) with Honours Class I.
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
1996 - Graduated from Merewether High School.
Previous Positions
2006-Mid 07 - Postdoc Research Associate,
Faculty of Engineering & School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science & ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control
at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
2006 (Semester 2) - Lectured SENG2130 (Software Process).
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
2005 (July - December), 2004 (Nov - Dec) - Research Assistant.
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
1998–2006 - Various TA Jobs
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
RoboCup Activites
2008 - Organising Chair for the Four-Legged League at RoboCup to be held in Suzhou, China in July 2008.
- Four-Legged League Technical Committee Member
2007 - NUbots (Team Leader). 2nd Place in the Four-Legged League at RoboCup in Atlanta, US.
- Four-Legged League Technical Committee Member
2006 - NUbots (Team Leader). 1st Place in the Four-Legged League at RoboCup in Bremen, Germany.
- Four-Legged League Technical Committee Member
2005 - NUbots (Team Leader). 2nd Place in the Four-Legged League at RoboCup in Osaka, Japan.
- Four-Legged League Technical Committee Member
2004 - NUbots. 3rd Place in the Four-Legged League at RoboCup in Lisbon, Portugal.
2003 - NUbots. 3rd Place in the Four-Legged League at RoboCup in Padua, Italy.
2002 - NUbots. 3rd Place in the Four-Legged League at RoboCup in Fukuoka, Japan.
Other Activites
2008 - SIMPAR '08 Progam Committee
2006 - 1st place in Non-stationary Mountain Car at the Reinforcement Learning Contest, NIPS 2006.
- AAMAS '07 Progam Committee.
- PCAR '06 Program Committee.
2005 - AAMAS '06 Progam Committee
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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.
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Current Research
Bootstrap Learning
RoboCup Soccer
Autonomous Vehicles
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