People
The lab
17 members working across four research themes, plus alumni now at labs and companies around the world.
Principal investigator
Postdoctoral researchers
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Antonio MarinoPostdoctoral ResearcherLearning-based control and coordination strategies for large-scale, heterogeneous multi-agent systems using compositional methods.
Coordination -
Eduardo Sebastián RodríguezPostdoctoral ResearcherMulti-robot decision-making systems for high-level task instructions using distributed algorithms.
Coordination -
Jan BlumenkampPostdoctoral ResearcherSim-to-real transfer using MARL and GNNs, with focus on interpretability and resilience. Best Paper Award at ICRA 2023.
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Manon FlageatPostdoctoral ResearcherDiversity-seeking learning algorithms using reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation for robotic system resilience.
Coordination -
Maxence BoelsPostdoctoral ResearcherBio-inspired vision-based perception and control for drone swarms navigating constrained environments.
VisionSwarms -
Michael AmirPostdoctoral ResearcherScalability and provable safety guarantees in multi-agent systems and swarm robotics, with interest in alignment.
CoordinationSwarms
PhD candidates
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Jasmine BayrootiPhD CandidateIntersection of mathematics, ML theory, and robotics — parameterising uncertainty and resilience in multi-agent systems.
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Jennifer GielisPhD CandidateWireless data communications and multi-robot control algorithms for drone swarms and automotive networks.
SwarmsCommunication -
Peter WooPhD CandidateMoving beyond monolithic AI toward specialised, collaborative robot teams — bridging theory with real-world drone experiments.
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Rishabh JainPhD CandidateMaking GNNs safer with emphasis on robustness and interpretability in multi-agent contexts.
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Zhan GaoPhD CandidateMulti-agent system-environment relationships, focusing on reinforcement learning and graph neural networks.
Coordination
Research staff
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Lorenzo MagninoResearch AssistantMulti-agent interactive systems using MARL and control — heterogeneity and swarm robotics implementation.
CoordinationSwarms -
Maksymilian WolskiResearch AssistantEnabling collaborative robot team reasoning — zero-shot coordination and world models.
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Mateusz Odrowaz-SypniewskiResearch AssistantMARL representing agent intentions without communication — exploring heterogeneity in coordination.
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Sally MatthewsProject CoordinatorCoordinates lab space, events, resources, and grant administration.
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Sridhar SolaResearch AssistantMoving cutting-edge research to real-world applications across computer vision, imitation learning, and RL.
Vision
- Ajay Shankar Postdoctoral Researcher→ 2025
- Alex Raymond PhD Student→ 2022
- Guang Yang Postdoctoral Researcher→ Boston Dynamics
- Keisuke Okumura Visiting Scholar→ AIST Japan
- Matteo Bettini PhD Student→ Meta
- Nicolas Pfitzer Visiting Masters Student→ ETH Zurich
- Qingbiao Li PhD Student→ 2023
- Ryan Kortvelesy PhD Student→ Industry
- Steven Morad PhD Student→ Assistant Professor, University of Macau