Meet the Team
Our team is committed to delivering revolutionary robotics innovations to the horticulture and agriculture sector.
The Academic/Research Team
Professor Andrew Hunter, Deputy Vice Chancellor and LAR Principal Investigator
Dr Grzegorz Cielniak, Associate Professor
Dr Carolina Camacho, Lecturer in Social and Managerial Technology
Dr Oorbessy (Reshmi) Gaju, Senior Lecturer in Crop Science
Dr Marcello Calisti, Senior Lecturer in Agri-Robotics
Dr Junfeng Gao, Lecturer in Agri-Robotics
Dr Tsvetan Zhivkov, Post Doctoral Research Associate
Dr Karthik Seemakurthy, Post Doctoral Research Associate
Professor Simon Pearson, Director of LIAT and LAR Co-Investigator
Professor Elizabeth Sklar, Professor in Agri-Robotics and LAR Research Director
Dr Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Gautham Das, Senior Lecturer in Agri-Robotics
Dr Ravi Valluru, Senior Lecturer in Crop Science
Ms Helen Harman, Post Doctoral Research Associate
Mr Taeyeong Choi, Post Doctoral Research Associate
Dr Usman Zahidi, Post Doctoral Research Associate
The Professional Services team
Mr David May, Deputy Director of LIAT
Mr Andrew Ham, Senior Mechatronics Engineer
Mr Ian Birch, Agricultural Technician
Mr Paul Davis, Technician
Miss Gezamin Parry, Project and Marketing Officer
Dr Paula Eves, Senior Project Manager
Miss Laura Spencer, Project Manager
Mr Luke Mahoney, ICT Support Technican
Mr Jonathan Trotter, Research Project Coordinator
Miss Swati Megha, Senior Research Software Engineer