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Basics
| Name | Elle Miller |
| Label | PhD Student |
| elle.miller@ed.ac.uk | |
| Url | https://ellemiller.info/ |
| Summary | Inspired and self-directed PhD student equipped with 8 years of academic and industry experience. My aspiration is to create intelligent systems that benefit individuals and society. |
Work
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2023.03 - 2023.09 Research Engineer
DLR Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics
Researched unknown object grasping for assistive robotics.
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2022.07 - 2022.12 Research Engineer
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Researched robotic perception for hazardous terrains.
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2022.01 - 2022.05 Robotics Intern
SLMC Research Lab, University of Edinburgh
Integrated a dual-armed torso robot with an omnidirectional mobile base to create EVA.
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2020.06 - 2021.10 Research Intern
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
1 of 5 interns to be selected internationally, embarked on a 1+ year research project that resulted in a first-author MNRAS publication.
Education
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2017 - 2023 Australia
Awards
- 2024
Best Talk at Annual Edinburgh RAS CDT Conference
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Received an award for giving the best student lightning talk in my PhD programme.
- 2021
Engineering Student Industry Placement Scholarship
NASA JPL
The University of Sydney 2021 candidate to be selected by NASA JPL to undertake an extended research placement.
- 2023
Dean's Excellence in Academic Performance
University of Sydney
Awarded to high performing students who achieve an average mark of a High Distinction or greater.
- 2017.2022
Sydney Scholars Award
University of Sydney
Awarded to outstanding and all-round students who demonstrate leadership skills in the school and community.
- 2016
Proxime of Secondary School
Secondary School
Ranked in top 0.6% of 55000+ students in 2016 HSC, with an ATAR of 99.60.
Skills
| Theoretical backgrounds | |
| Mathematics | |
| Physics | |
| Mechatronic engineering | |
| Computer science | |
| Machine learning |
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| C/C++ | |
| Matlab | |
| Assembly |
| Robotics | |
| ROS | |
| Gazebo | |
| PyBullet | |
| MuJoCo | |
| IsaacSim |
Interests
| Robotics | |
| Assistive robotics | |
| Space robotics | |
| Dexterous manipulation |
| Reinforcement learning | |
| Multimodal sensing | |
| Representation learning |