DrViorela Ila

I am senior lecturer with The University of Sydney, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. My research interests span from robot vision to advanced techniques for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and 3D reconstruction based on cutting-edge computational tools such as graphical models, modern optimization methods and information theory.

I received the Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering and Automation from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2000 and the Ph.D. in Information Technologies from the University of Girona, Spain, in 2005. After the PhD studies, I joined the Robotics group at the Institut de Robótica i Informàtica Industrial, Barcelona, Spain. In 2009 I have been awarded the MICINN/FULBRIGHT post-doctoral fellowship which allowed me to join the group of Prof. Frank Dellaert at College of Computing, Georgia Tech, Atlanta US. In 2010, I joined the robotic group at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France to work in the ROSACE project founded by RTRA-STAE. Between 2012 and 2014 I was research scientist at Brno University of Technology in Czech Republic. From 2015-2018 I was research fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision at the Australian National University (ANU).