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Professor Praminda Caleb-SollyAssistive Robotics
Praminda is Professor of Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Health Technologies. She is a member of both the Bristol Robotics Lab and the Healthcare Technology Hub. From 2014 to 2018, she was also Head of Electronics and Computer Systems at Designability, a not-for-profit SME who design Assistive Technology.
With an engineering background underpinned by degrees in Electronic Systems Engineering, Biomedical Instrumentation Engineering and a PhD in Interactive Evolutionary Computation, together with expertise in Interaction Design, Praminda leads on projects encompassing a range of complex technical and social challenges. Praminda's recent portfolio of Innovate UK, RCUK and EC funded projects include socially and physically assistive robotics and IoT sensor-based intelligent technology to support older adults with ageing-related impairments. Her research covers safe, accessible and collaborative Human-Robot Interaction, Sensing and Intelligent Activity Recognition, and Adaptive Machine Learning Systems.
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Research Lead: Assistive Robotics
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Machine Learning and Smart Home Sensing
Accessible Design and User Experience
Professor Sanja DogramadziMedical Robotics
Professor Sanja Dogramadzi is leading Healthcare Robotics group (REACH) in Bristol Robotics Laboratory. She has a degree in Mechanical and Control Engineering and holds a PhD in medical robotics from University of Newcastle. Before joining UWE, she worked at University of Newcastle and University of Leeds.
Sanja's research interests include design and control of surgical robots for minimally invasive fracture surgery and robot-assisted MIS, rehabilitation robots, physical assistance robots and safe and ethical human-robot interaction. She has led and coordinated many research projects funded by UK councils, Innovate UK, NIHR and European Commission and have been awarded more than £4M in the last five years.
Recent research includes EC funded SMARTsurg project, EPSRC funded I-DRESS project, H2020 Marie Curie ITN Socrates and the technical leadership for Innovate UK funded CHIRON project. Sanja holds patents for work in robot-assisted fracture surgery and motion sensing surface for radiotherapy treatment.
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Professor Ioannis IeropoulosBristol Bioenergy Centre
Professor Ioannis (Yannis) Ieropoulos is a Professor of Bioenergy and Self-Sustainable Systems and Director of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE.
Ioannis has an interest in waste utilisation and energy autonomy and produced the EcoBot family of robots, which are powered by microbial fuel cells (MFCs) fed on organic waste; the latest self-sustainable robot is Row-bot. He is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grantee for the "Urine-tricity/Pee Power" project, which is advancing the MFC technology for Developing World Countries.
