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2.4.3 Staff
Tom Duckett is an assistant professor at Dept. of Technology, Örebro University and the
head of the AASS Learning Systems Lab. He received the B.Sc.(Hons) degree in Computer
and Management Sciences from Warwick University (UK) in 1991. After working in
industry as an Analyst/Programmer for several years, he was awarded the M.Sc. degree with
distinction in Knowledge Based Systems by Heriot-Watt University (UK) in 1995. His M.Sc.
dissertation was carried out as an ERASMUS exchange student at Karlsruhe University (DE).
He received his Ph.D. on concurrent map building and self-localization for mobile robot
navigation from Manchester University (UK) in 2000, including a one month research visit to
Bremen University (DE) on landmark selection for mobile robot navigation. He has authored
4 journal articles and 15 full paper refereed conference papers, and is a regular reviewer for
several international conferences and journals. He also has 7 years of teaching experience at
university level. His professional interests are in autonomous robotics, machine learning and
neural networks, artificial intelligence, and navigation systems.
Lucia Ballerini is a guest researcher at the Dept. of Technology, Örebro University in the
AASS Learning Systems Lab since October 2002. She graduated from the University of
Florence (Italy) in Electronic Engineering in 1993 and received the Ph.D. in Bioengineering
in 1998 working at the Department of Electronic Engineering (Florence, Italy) on a project to
develop an automatic system to aid medical diagnosis. She partecipated in several projects for
medical image analysis, sponsored by MURST. From 1999 to 2002 she was a post-doc at the
Centre for Image Analysis, Uppsala (Sweden) working on the project "Image analysis
methods for food quality measurements" sponsored by MISTRA. She has published more
than 30 papers in international journals and refereed conferences. She is a member of ADI -
Italian Ph.D. Association (board member and ``foreign affairs'' delegate of the association);
EvoNet - The Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing; IAPR - International
Association for Pattern Recognition; IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers;
SSAB - Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis. Her research interests are image
processing and analysis, genetic algorithms and active contour models.
Li Jun is a Ph.D. student at the Dept. of Technology, Örebro University in the AASS
Learning Systems Lab. He received the B.S. and M.S. degree from Gui Zhou University of
Technology, Gui Zhou, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively.
His current research interest includes theory and application of artificial neural network
learning systems, specifically, the learning algorithms for autonomous mobile robot systems.
The objective is to provide adaptive on-line learning mechanism and algorithms inspired by
biological learning theory to study the mobile robot behaviors such as goal finding, obstacle
avoiding, target approaching, and wall following etc.
Grzegorz Cielniak is a Ph.D. student at the Dept. of Technology, Örebro University in the
AASS Learning Systems Lab. He was born in Krapkowice, Poland in 1975. He received his
MSc degree in robotics in 2000 at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland.
Since January 2001 he has been a graduate student at AASS. His current research interests
include artificial intelligence, robot learning and vision systems.