About me

I completed my Master of Engineering (Mechanical) at the University of Melbourne in 2016. In 2015 I worked as a research assistant in the Fluid Dynamics lab at Melbourne before completing an exchange semester at ETH Zurich. My final year Master’s thesis was a combined project with the University of Melbourne and The Northern Hospital, performing computational fluid dynamics studies on patient-specific coronary arteries under the supervision of Andrew Ooi.

In 2017 I commenced my PhD in Robotic Vision under the supervision of Rob Mahony and Nick Barnes at the ANU. My PhD is focused on understanding and processing visual data from novel, biologically inspired sensors called ‘event cameras’. Event cameras do not capture images using a shutter like conventional cameras, instead responding to per-pixel changes in brightness, reporting these changes as they occur, but staying silent otherwise. As a result, event cameras are very fast and do not suffer from motion blur or under/overexposure, enabling robots to see in a range of challenging conditions such as high speed and low light.

In 2018 I moved to Zurich for a 12 month research visit at the University of Zurich, Robotics and Perception Group under the supervision of Davide Scaramuzza. While there, I did research on image reconstruction, optical flow and deep learning with event cameras.

In January 2021 I finished my PhD: How to See with an Event Camera.

In 2020 - 2021 I worked on a short animated film ‘Finding X’ supported by a Screen Australia Skip Ahead grant.

In 2021 I started a new role as a deep learning engineer at Skydio.

When I’m not doing research I enjoy playing underwater rugby!

Photo: Philipp Schmidli (Lucerne, 3 November 2018).