Short Version

 

Dr Edward Johns is the Director of the Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London, where he is also a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor). He received a BA and MEng from Cambridge University, and a PhD from Imperial College. He was then a post-doc at UCL, before returning to Imperial College as a founding member of the Dyson Robotics Lab. In 2017, he was awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, and then in 2018 he was appointed as a Lecturer and founded the Robot Learning Lab.

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Long Version

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Dr Edward Johns is the Director of the Robot Learning Lab at Imperial College London, where he is also a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow. His work lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning, and he and his team are currently studying visually-guided robot manipulation.

 

He received a BA and MEng in Electrical and Information Engineering from Cambridge University, and a PhD in visual place recognition from Imperial College. Following his PhD, he was a post-doc at UCL, before returning to Imperial College as a founding member of the Dyson Robotics Lab with Prof Andrew Davison, where he led the robot manipulation team.

 

In 2017, he was awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship for his project "Empowering Next-Generation Robots with Dexterous Manipulation: Deep Learning via Simulation", and then in 2018 he was appointed as a Lecturer and founded the Robot Learning Lab. He currently teaches graduate-level courses on Reinforcement Learning and Robot Learning.

 

He has published over 45 peer-reviewed papers, which have over 2300 citations. Externally, he is on the advisory board for a number of robotics startups, including Karakuri and Muddy Machines.

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