Teaching

Teaching

Courses taught at the University of Melbourne, UNSW, and EPFL. I supervise PhD and MPhil students working on human-robot interaction, robot learning, social robotics, and haptics.

University of Melbourne · 2022 – present
INFO90005
Human-AI Interaction
Coordinator and Lecturer. Design and evaluation of human-AI systems; interaction paradigms, ethics, and sociotechnical considerations.
Postgraduate
2022 – present
INFO30005
Advanced Interface Prototyping
Lecturer. High-fidelity prototyping techniques for interactive systems; user testing and iterative design.
Undergraduate
2022 – present
COMP300024
Artificial Intelligence
Lecturer. Foundations of AI including search, planning, machine learning, and reasoning.
Undergraduate
2022 – present
University of New South Wales · 2019 – 2021
COMP3431
Robotics Vision and Human-Robot Interaction
Lecturer. Robotic perception, visual processing, and interaction design for HRI.
Undergraduate
2019 – 2021
COMP9517
Image Formation, Image Processing and Feature Extraction
Lecturer. Core computer vision concepts including image formation, filtering, and feature detection.
Postgraduate
2019 – 2021
COMP9511
Human-Computer Interaction
Lecturer. Topics in memory, visual design and evaluation, data acquisition and visualisation for HCI.
Postgraduate
2019 – 2021
EPFL · 2015 – 2019
Visual Computing: Vision & Graphics
AR-game project using processing and various computer vision techniques. Bachelor in Computer Science.
Undergraduate
2015 – 2019
Tangible Swarm Interaction
Practical course on tangible swarm robot interaction. Master in Robotics.
Postgraduate
2015 – 2019
Current Students
Enjie Cao
PhD Student
XR for Lower Limb Gait Rehabilitation
2025– · ME, University of Melbourne
Farshad Daryakenari
PhD Student
Shared Control in Robot Teleoperation
2024– · ME, University of Melbourne
Tharaka Ratnayake ★
PhD Student
Tangible Interfaces for Mindfulness
2024– · CIS, University of Melbourne
Josephine Delore ★
MPhil Student
Optimisation for Agent Advice in Decision Making
2024– · CIS, University of Melbourne
Jian Zhang ★
PhD Candidate
Haptic Illusion Tools for Virtual Reality
2024– · CIS, University of Melbourne
Yan Zhang ★
PhD Candidate
Implicit Behaviours for Human-Robot Collaboration
2023– · CIS, University of Melbourne
Ramtin Seyed Tabatabaei ★
PhD Candidate
Joint Attention for Assistive Social Robots
2023– · CIS, University of Melbourne
Muhammad Bilal ★
PhD Candidate
Training the Trainer in Robots Learning from Demonstrations
2023– · CIS, University of Melbourne
Sarah Schömbs ★
PhD Candidate
Risk Communication in Human-Agent Interaction
2023– · CIS, University of Melbourne
Adam Goldin
PhD Candidate
Robot Planning and Reasoning using Projective Consciousness
2021– · CSE, University of New South Wales
Past Students
Ulan Kelesbekov
MPhil
Designing Multi-Purpose Haptic Controllers for Virtual Reality
2022 – 2025 · CIS, University of Melbourne
Lina Phaijit
PhD
An AR-based robot training system for novices to teach
2021 – 2024 · CSE, University of New South Wales
Yu (Carson) Liu
MPhil
Speech-Driven Gesture Generation for Robots
2020 – 2023 · CSE, University of New South Wales
Open Research Topics
Learning from Demonstration with Corrective Feedback
Open
Gesture & Expressivity in Culturally-Diverse HRI
Open
Augmented Reality Interfaces for Robot Task Specification
Open
Social Robots in Aged Care Settings
Open
Child-Robot Interaction in STEM Education
Potentially available