About me
I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at King’s College London, working on planning and optimization algorithms for robotics.
My research explores various aspects of algorithms for robotics: energetic and computational efficiency, hierarchical organization, environment-awareness, bio-inspiration, fairness, ethics, and explainability.
Some of the topics I have worked on:
- hierarchical motion planning
- informative planning (active vision)
- learning approaches to planning
- human-inspired planning
- design optimization
- visual detection, mapping, estimation and tracking
- fair and explainable planning
- ethical issues of planning, robotics and AI
Previously, I was a post-doc at the Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford (2017-2019), and before that at Takanishi Laboratory, Waseda University, Tokyo (2016-2017). My PhD was advised by Atsuo Takanishi and Jose Santos-Victor.
I have also visited Prof. Oussama Khatib’s robotics group at Stanford, worked at the Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory in IST, and spent a semester at UPC. I also spent some time at the Japanese startup QibiTech. I did my MSc at IST, advised by Alexandre Bernardino and Jose Santos-Victor.
I (used to) write blogs introducing non-mainstream Japanese and Russian music.
Contact
You can contact me at firstname.lastname[at]kcl.ac.uk
News
- March 2021: New ICAPS2021 paper “Explaining Path Plan Optimality: Fast Explanation Methods for Navigation Meshes Using Full and Incremental Inverse Optimization”
- October 2020: New papers at ICAPS2020 (hierarchical planning) and RoboPhilosophy2020 (discrimination in AVs).
- May 2020: I am organizing a special issue on “Responsible Robotics: Identifying and Addressing Issues of Ethics, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Privacy and Employment”, Frontiers on Robotics an AI, together with Martin Magnusson and Masoumeh Mansouri.
- March 2020: new AIJ paper “Fair navigation planning: a resource for characterizing and designing fairness in mobile robots”
- December 2019: I am co-organizing the ICRA 2020 workshop “AGAINST robot dystopias: thinking through the ethical, legal and societal issues of robotics and automation”