Dr. Kasra Khosoussi is currently a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in the US) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland. Previously, he was the Team Leader for Robotic Mapping at CSIRO and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. Prior to that, he was also a Research Scientist (2019-2021) and a Postdoctoral Associate (2017–2018) at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and has served as an Area Chair for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) and an Associate Editor for ICRA and IROS.
His research focuses on the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robot perception and autonomy. He was a finalist for the ICRA 2018 Best Paper Award in multi-robot systems, received an honorable mention for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award in 2021, and won the Hilti SLAM Challenge at ICRA 2022.
Availability
Dr Kasra Khosoussi is:
Available for supervision
Qualifications
Bachelor (Honours) of Computer Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy of Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, University of Technology Sydney
Monte Carlo sampling of non-Gaussian proposal distribution in feature-based RBPF-SLAM
Marhamati, Nina, Taghirad, Hamid D. and Khosoussi, Kasra (2012). Monte Carlo sampling of non-Gaussian proposal distribution in feature-based RBPF-SLAM.
