- May 2026: I’ll be in ICRA 2026. I’m co-organising the ‘Act to Sense to Act Better’ workshop, I’ll be presenting my TFR paper on legged robots for forestry (previous work with Oxford), and my colleague Salvatore Esposito will be presenting the ROOM simulator. See you in Vienna!
- Mar 2026: I gave an online talk to the William Bright Society at Glenalmond College in Perth.
- Feb 2026: I gave a talk on robot representations to the Computational Cognitive Science group led by Dr. Benjamin Peters here at Edinburgh.
- Jan 2026: Our workshop proposal ‘Act to Sense to Act Better: Learning and Representations for Active Perception in Manipulation’ has been accepted to ICRA 2026. This is a joint effort with Cristiana de Farias, Tim Schneider (Darmstadt), Russell Buchanan (Waterloo) and Roberto Calandra (Dresden).
- Dec 2025: Christina Kassab and Sacha Morin presented our OpenLex3D paper at NeurIPS 2025.
- Nov 2025: I gave a talk presenting the main projects of the Assistive Care Team in the Centre for AI in Assistive Autonomy Inaugural Event.
- Nov 2025: The World Economic Forum has featured part of my work on forestry robotics done at the University of Oxford.
- Nov 2025: I’ll be a Reviewer for RSS 2026.
- Sep 2025: I’ll serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2026.
- July 2025: I’ll be an invited speaker at IWIALS 2025 in Austria. I’m giving a talk on my research and my tutorial on graphics for papers.
- June 2025: I moved to the University of Edinburgh for a new postdoc at the Centre for AI in Assistive Autonomy. I’ll be leading the Assistive Care team.
- May 2025: Invited as an early-career speaker at ICRA @Latin America in Santiago, Chile. I gave a talk on my research and my tutorial on graphics for papers.
- May 2025: I’ve been recognised as an Outstanding Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) Reviewer 2025.
- May 2025: I finished my postdoc at the University of Oxford.
- Apr 2025: I’ve contributed an article to The Conversation discussing the Corleo robot by Kawazaki.
- Jan 2025: I’ll serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2025.
- Nov 2024:I joined the efforts to write the SLAM Handbook led by Luca Carlone, Ayoung Kim, Frank Dellaert, Tim Barfoot, and Daniel Cremers. Marco Camurri and I wrote a chapter on leg odometry. The first part is openly available for review, our chapter will appear in part 2.
- Oct 2024: Benoit Casseau, Leonard Freißmuth, and Haedam Oh will be in Iros 2024 presenting a set on papers on forestry robotics where I contributed.
- Jun 2024: I’ll be in ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. I’ll be presenting a workshop paper on forest inventory in the Field Robotics Workshop. Christina Kassab will present LEXIS, Ethan Tao will present SiLVR, Meher Malladi (Uni Bonn) will present a tree segmentation system, and Jin Jin (ETH Zurich) will present a resilient navigation paper (also a finalist for the Cognitive Robotics Paper Award)
- Nov 2023: I passed my PhD viva on the 17th, examined by Stefan Leutenegger and Ioannis Havoutis. Link
- Sep 2023: I started a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford.
- Sep 2023: I submitted my PhD thesis!
- Jul 2023: Jonas Frey and I will be presenting our Wild Visual Navigation paper in RSS 2023, Daegu, Korea.
- May 2023: I’ll be in ICRA 2023 in London.
- May 2022: I’ll be presenting my locally reactive controller RA-L paper in ICRA 2022 in Philadephia.
- Apr 2022: I started a visiting researcher position at the Robotic Systems Lab (RSL) at ETH Zurich.
- Feb 2022: My RA-L paper on teach and repeat has been featured on TechXplore.
- Oct 2021: I’ve been awarded an NCCR Robotics PhD Exchange Fellowship to visit ETH Zurich.
- Aug 2021: Yiduo Wang’s paper on scalable reconstruction, where I contributed, will be presented in ECMR 2021.
- May 2021: I presented my first paper of my PhD, on visual teach and repeat on legged robots in ICRA 2021 (online). I also presented my ongoing work at the Legged Robots workshop, and my abstract was a finalist.
- Mar 2021: I’ll be leading an (online) robotic exploration challenge for the students of the CDT in Autonomous and Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS).
- Oct 2020: The Newer College Dataset paper led by Milad Ramezani will be presented at IROS 2020.
- Oct 2019: I started my PhD in robotics at the University of Oxford.
- Jun 2019: I’ve been awarded a Becas Chile Scholarship for my PhD studies at the University of Oxford.
- Aug 2018: I started a job as Coordinator of the Beauchef Projecta unit at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Universidad de Chile.
- Aug 2018: I’ve defended my master’s thesis on visual SLAM. Thanks to my examiners José Martínez Carranza, Felipe Tobar, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar.
- Jul 2017: Our paper on visual navigation with the robot Pepper, done by Cristopher Gómez, Tim Resink, and myself, was presented by Cristopher in the RoboCup Symposium 2017, in Nagoya, Japan.
- Dec 2016: We were awarded CLP 2,500,000 to make our own version of Duckietown at the Universidad de Chile (link)
- Nov 2016: I gave an invited talk about Robot Football at Futuristas, a TED-like event for high-school students and general public in Santiago.
- Jun 2016: Our RoboCup paper introducing the NAO Backpack was presented by my colleague Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari at the RoboCup Symposium 2016.
- Jun 2015: I participated in my 4th RoboCup in Hefei, China. We got the 4th place again!
- Jun 2015: I presented my first paper, on active vision, in the RoboCup Symposium 2015.
- Jun 2014: I participated in my 3rd RoboCup in João Pessoa, Brazil. We got the fourth place in the Standard Platform League!
- Apr 2014: I started as a mentor in the Mustakis Foundation, teaching robotics courses for high-school students.
- Jan 2014: I’m taking a short program on Academic English at the University of Victoria, Canada, from January to April.
- Jun 2013: I participated in my second RoboCup, which took place in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Jan 2013: I’ll be doing an engineering internship at the Atacama Large Millimiter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) from January to early March.
- Jun 2012: I’ll join my first RoboCup in Mexico City, Mexico