Ted is a proud Palawa man and PhD researcher at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He is completing his PhD in partnership with the CSIRO Robotics group through an Indigenous Graduate Research Fellowship. Here at QUT, Ted is investigating multi-agent collaborative lunar exploration with a specific focus on terrain traversability analysis across multiple viewpoints and sensing modalities.
Before joining QUT, Ted was a visiting student researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He worked closely with the Ocean Worlds Laboratory to adapt and implement a sonar-based obstacle detection and avoidance system for the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, affectionately known as BRUIE.
Ted obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)—Robotics and Mechatronics from Western Sydney University (WSU). He completed his Honours research with the WSU International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, where he developed a motion compensation algorithm for Earth Observation data received from the Falcon Neuro mission aboard the ISS.