About me

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where I am advised by Prof. Kostas Alexis in the Autonomous Robots Lab. I am co-advised by Prof. Eleni Kelasidi and Prof. Margarita Chli. My research lies at the intersection of robot perception, state estimation, and long-term autonomy, with a focus on enabling robots to operate reliably in environments where conventional vision-based methods fail.

During my PhD, I have developed resilient perception and state-estimation methods for underwater robots, spanning refractive visual-inertial odometry, learning-based proprioception, and long-term navigation under severe visual degradation and complete visual blackout. Looking ahead, I aim to bridge resilient perception with scene reasoning and foundation models, starting by tackling the data gap, to enable autonomous systems that can understand, reason about, and interact with complex marine environments.

While underwater robotics is my primary research platform, I am broadly interested in robust perception for autonomous systems operating in extreme environments. This has also led me to work on vision-based lunar navigation during a research visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. My long-term vision is to develop resilient robotic systems that perceive, reason, and operate autonomously where existing robotic systems remain fundamentally limited.