Rate My Professor Michael Milford

Professor Michael Milford is a Professor in Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Queensland University of Technology, where he serves as Director of the QUT Centre for Robotics. He holds a PhD from the University of Queensland awarded in 2006, a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Space Engineering from the University of Queensland awarded in 2002, and a Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Queensland University of Technology awarded in 2014. His research focuses on interdisciplinary work at the intersection of robotics, neuroscience and computer vision, developing bio-inspired systems for navigation, mapping, localisation and perception, with applications including all-weather positioning for autonomous vehicles. He has led or co-led projects with total funding exceeding 48 million dollars and maintains an h-index of 50 with over 13,000 citations.

Professor Milford currently holds the positions of Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. He is also a Professor of Robotics and has received awards including the ATSE Batterham Medal, the Queensland Young Tall Poppy of the Year Award and recognition as Australia’s top robotics researcher by citation impact. Key publications include the 2008 book Robot Navigation from Nature, the 2012 paper SeqSLAM: Visual route-based navigation for sunny summer days and stormy winter nights, and the 2010 paper Persistent navigation and mapping using a biologically inspired SLAM system. He has collaborated with institutions such as Harvard University, MIT, Oxford University and organisations including Google DeepMind, Ford and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.