Let's talk robotics with Professor Michael Milford

Eps 8 In today’s episode I talk to Professor Michael Milford. Michael is a professor at Queensland University of Technology where he conducts interdisciplinary research at the boundary between robotics, neuroscience and computer vision. He is also a multi-award winning educational entrepreneur!

His research models the neural mechanisms in the brain underlying tasks like navigation and perception to develop new technologies in challenging application domains such as all-weather, anytime positioning for autonomous vehicles. He is also one of Australia’s most in demand experts in technologies including self-driving cars, robotics and artificial intelligence, and is a passionate science communicator. He currently holds the position of Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, as well as Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow and Chief Investigator at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision.

His research has helped attract more than 45 million dollars in research and industry funding for fellowships and team grants from organizations including the Australian Research Council, Microsoft and US Air Force. Michael’s papers have won (6) or been finalists (9) for 15 best paper awards including the 2012 ICRA Best Vision paper. His citation h-index is 33, with 5884 citations as of March 2020. Michael has dual Australian-US citizenship and has lived and worked in locations including Boston, Edinburgh and London. He has collaborated with organizations including Harvard University, Boston University, Oxford University, MIT, Edinburgh University, Imperial College London, Google Deepmind, Caterpillar, the US Air Force and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Suffice to say and extraordinary talented individual!

Have a look at Michael’s personal website here!

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