Biography
Navinda is a Research Team Leader and Senior Research Scientist with the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT), Pullenvale, QLD. He leads the Dynamic Platforms team and conducts research in legged robot navigation and control with multi-legged robots. Navinda joined CSIRO in December 2009 as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Sensor Networks (later Distributed Sensing Systems) group at the Autonomous Systems Lab and conducted research in using acoustics for localisation and ecological monitoring. Previously he conducted robotics research at The Australian National University and was a team member of the Serafina project which developed swarming technology for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). His fields of interest include Experimental Robotics, Localization, Navigation and Mechatronics. Navinda completed his PhD in Engineering at The Australian National University in November 2009. During his PhD candidature, he designed, developed and experimentally evaluated a novel high precision distributed localization sensor to be deployed on small agile underwater vehicles to facilitate swarming. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and the is the vice-chair of the Queensland joint chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and IEEE Control Systems Society. He is also a member of the ACM, an Honourary Senior Lecturer of the University of Queensland and a Visiting Fellow of the Queensland University of Technology.
Professional Areas
Academic Qualifications
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2009
PhD
The Australian National University -
2004
BIT
University of Colombo School of Computing -
2003
BSc (Engineering Physics)
University of Colombo
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2014-now
Senior Member, IEEE
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2013-2014
TPC member, ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet)
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2009-now
Member, ACM
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2008-now
Member, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
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2005-now
Member, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
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2011-2013
PC member, Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks & Information Processing conference (ISSNIP)
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2010-2010
PC member, International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS)
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2005-2014
Member, IEEE
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2018-2018
Local Arrangements Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
