Russell Buchanan

Russell Buchanan is an Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering since 2024 and is the principal investigator of the Robotic Interaction, Perception and Learning Lab. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh, UK and affiliated with the Alan Turing Institute. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) from the University of Oxford in 2024 for his work on perception for legged robots in challenging, vision-denied environments. He received his master's degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2018 which included an 8 month research stay at CSIRO in Brisbane, Australia.

His research interests are in SLAM, state estimation and mapping for mobile robots in challenging, real-world conditions.

• Robot Perception

• State Estimation

• Legged Robots

• Deep Learning

• Mobile Robots

• Computer Vision

• 2024, DPhil, Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK

• 2018, MSc, Robotics, Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• 2016, BEng, Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Canada

• ME 123 - Electrical Engineering for Mechanical Engineers
  • Taught in 2025
• ME 561 - Fluid Power Control Systems
  • Taught in 2025

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