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Talking at the QUT Bold: Infinite Awe of Robotics event at World Science Festival Brisbane 2025
2025
27 March, invited keynote, CSIRO Cutting Edge Symposium on Real Time Control Decisions using Machine Learning, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
27 March, keynote speaker, The Infinite Awe of Robotics event, World Science Festival Brisbane 2025
3 April, Mansfield State High Meet a Scientist Talk, Mansfield SHS, Brisbane, Australia
15 April, “Adversity ‐ and Adversary ‐ Robust Adaptive Positioning Systems with Integrity”, Centre for Advanced Defence Research in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CADR-RAS) seminar, with Connor Malone
16 May, “Artificial Intelligence for Project Professionals”, Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)
16 June, “Hacking Academia”, QUT 2025 Careers Week
June 21–25, 2025, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2025), Los Angeles, California, USA.
Invited speaker at RSS2025 workshop on Scalable and Resilient Multi-Robot Systems: Decision-Making, Coordination, and LearningHost and co-organizer of RSS2025 workshop on Unifying Visual SLAM: From Fragmented Datasets to Scalable, Real-World Solutions
[can’t attend] 11 July, invited talk, Beyond Sensors: AI, SLAM and the Future of Autonomous Navigation, at the Quantum Navigation: Charting New Landmarks workshop, Melbourne, Australia
19 July, invited talk on “QUT Centre for Robotics overview and Hacking Academia”at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT, Brisbane, Australia.
27 August, “Thinking beyond the car: What does parking look like in a multi-modal transport world?”, Parking Australia event, QUT Gardens Point
28 August, “Personal Branding and Professional Networking”, UQ School of Biomedical Sciences Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Retreat, Brisbane
9 September, “Using social media to promote your research”, QUT Women in Research Strategic Mentoring Program Keynote Event, Brisbane, Australia
9 September, “Mentoring”, Mentoring For Researcher Developers (M4RD) scheme within the Network For Researcher Developers, online, international audience.
18 September, invited speaker at the “The light and dark sides of utopia” workshop session, National Future Transport Summit, National Future Transport Summit, organized by Centre for Connected and Automated Transport
22 September, invited speaker and panelist at the ATSE AI Generations event, online.
8 October, Panel for the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), QCAT, CSIRO DATA61, Brisbane, Australia
15 October, “From research to road: How robotics is shaping the future of autonomous trucks in Australia’s freight network”, Keynote at Highways AU: Roads for a Connected Future, Sydney, Australia
22 October, Amazon/NVIDIA Plenary talk, eResearch Australasia 2025 conference, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.
[Likely online] October 19–25, 2025, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), Hangzhou, China.
- 20/24 October – “Localization for Autonomous Underground Mining Vehicles: Lessons Learned for Introspection, Collaboration and How We Benchmark Performance”, invited presentation at the Workshop on Perception and Navigation for Autonomous Heavy Machines in Shared Environments
4 November, “From fundamental neuroscience and AI to commercial robotics and back again: insights, challenges and opportunities”, Information in Silicon and Neurons (ISN) workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney
21 November, “AV’S – What Are We Waiting For?”, Plenary at ITS Australia Summit, Gold Coast, Australia.
1-3 December, “Safe, collaboration-friendly, user-acceptable perception and localization for autonomous systems”, keynote speaker at the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (and honorary General Chair)