Resume: Dr. Raymond Ka-Man Sheh

Here's a litte bit about me and my career so far! Please do contact me if you want the full, up-to-the-minute version!

• Advanced Sensors
  - Vision: FLIR thermal cameras, conventional and industrial cameras for computer vision.
  - 3D: CSEM/MESA SwissRanger SR-2B and SR-3100 range cameras, custom rotating Hokuyo laser range scanners and stereo vision.
  - Inertial: XSens MTx heading-attitude sensors.
  - Selection and integration of multiple complementary sensors.
• Artificial Intelligence
  - Sensor fusion for 3D mapping and SLAM.
  - Computer Vision, 3D Processing, Data Representation and 2D/3D Scene Interpretation.
  - Machine Learning: Behavioural Cloning, Robot Motion Planning and Reinforcement Learning for advanced mobility on simulated and real robots in unstructured environments.
  - Design, development, implementation and evaluation of autonomous controllers for robot mobility and exploration in structured and unstructured environments. Awarded RoboCup Rescue Best-In-Class Autonomy in 2009 and 2010.
• Human-Robot Interfaces
  - Innovative user interfaces for robot driving and 2D/3D map interaction.
  - Intuitive presentation of data from multiple sensors including 3D, thermal and multiple conventional cameras.
  - Control of advanced mobility robots using both custom and off-the-shelf user interfaces. Awarded RoboCup Rescue Best-In-Class Mobility in 2010.
• Test Methods
  - Construction and application of a variety of standard test methods for advanced mobility, autonomous exploration, map evaluation, directed perception and user interface evaluation.
• Mechatronic Engineering
  - Operation, maintenance and customisation of commercial robots including the RoboticFX/iRobot Negotiator, Yujin Robotics RobHAZ-DT3, Activmedia Pioneer and Volksbot RT robots.
  - Design, fabrication, testing, deployment and maintenance of mechanical and electronic hardware and firmware for commercial and custom robots, sensors and actuators for structured and unstructured environments.
• Programming
  - C and C++ under Linux and Windows environments.
  - Java under Linux and Eclipse environments.
  - Object Orientated Programming methods.
  - Programming for 3D graphics and custom physics simulation.
  - Custom drivers, middleware, representations, algorithms and user interfaces for commercial and custom robots, sensors and actuators including cameras and image sensors.
  - General shell scripting for automation and system administration.
  - Maintenance of Linux and Windows systems and networks.
• Photography, Videography
  - Video camera and hardware selection, deployment and software integration for monitoring of robots, user interfaces and people in laboratory and everyday environments.
  - Studio and event photography. Self-published book, "Watch for Robots", available from http://WatchForRobots.raybot.net . 

• Competitions
  - RoboCup Rescue Robot League (RoboCup Federation and NIST):
   - As a competitor (2005-2007, 2009-2010).
   - As an organiser (2008) and technical committee member (2008-2009), responsible for arena design and construction, competition rules and judging.
  - MAGIC 2010 (US and Australian Army):
   - As an evaluator, responsible for development and implementation of map evaluation metrics and ground truth representation.
• Camps and Workshops
  - RoboCup Rescue camps and workshops (RoboCup Federation and NIST):
   - As an attendee (2004).
   - As an organiser and presenter (2005-2007, 2009) on topics including robot building, mapping and autonomous behaviours.
• Evaluations
  - Response Robot Evaluations (NIST and DHS), Montgomery County 2006 and Disaster City 2007:
   - As an evaluator, responsible for deploying, administering and evaluating test methods for response robots.

• 2004 - 2010 Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Supervised by Prof. Claude Sammut and Dr Bernhard Hengst. The thesis topic concerned the use of machine learning to produce controllers that would allow advanced mobility robots, equipped with onboard 3D sensing, to autonomously traverse unstructured terrain.
• 1999 - 2003 B(Eng)/B(Sc) (Double Degree) in Electronic and Communications Engineering (with First Class Honours) and Computer Science at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.

• Ph.D. Thesis:
  Sheh, R. (2010) Learning Robot Behaviours by Observing and Envisaging. UNSW PhD Thesis, available from http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/45703 .
• Refereed:
  Sheh, R., Milstein, A., McGill, M., Salleh, R., Hengst, B., Sammut, C. (2009) Semi-Autonomous Robots for RoboCupRescue. Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation.
  Sheh, R., Kadous, W., Sammut, C., Hengst, B. (2007) Extracting Terrain Features from Range Images for Autonomous Random Stepfield Traversal. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics.
  Sheh, R., Jamali, N., Kadous, W., Sammut, C. (2006) A Low-Cost, Compact, Lightweight 3D Range Sensor. Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation.
  Kadous, W., Sammut, C., Sheh, R. (2006) Autonomous Traversal of Rough Terrain using Behavioural Cloning. The 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents.
  Sheh, R., Kadous, W., Sammut, C. (2006) Controlling Heterogeneous Semi-Autonomous Rescue Robot Teams. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.
  Sheh, R. (2006) The Redback: A Low-Cost Advanced Mobility Robot for Education and Research. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics.
  Kadous, W., Sheh, R., Sammut, C. (2006) Effective User Interface Design for Rescue Robotics. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human-Robot Interactions.
  Kadous, W., Sammut, C., Sheh, R. (2006) Behavioral Cloning for Robots in Unstructured Environments. Conference on Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
  Kadous, W., Sheh, R., Sammut, C. (2005) CASTER: A Robot for Urban Search and Rescue. Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation
• Technical Reports, Invited Talks and Other Publications:
  Sheh, R., Milstein, A., McGill, M., Salleh, R., Hengst, B., Sammut, C. (2009) Autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue. Invited keynote talk, presented at the 2009 International Rescue Robotics Workshop, Pattaya, Thailand
  Sheh, R. (2008) Watch for Robots: A Glimpse at the Early Childhood of Rescue Robots. Self-published book, available from http://WatchForRobots.raybot.net/
  Sheh, R., Kadous, W., Sammut, C. (2006) On building 3D maps using a Range Camera: Applications to Rescue Robotics. Technical Report UNSW-CSE-TR-0609, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  Sheh, R. (2005) The Building of Redback. Invited talk, presented at the 2005 International Rescue Robotics Workshop and Camp, Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome, Italy
  Sheh, R. (2005) Redback: A Low-Cost Advanced Mobility Robot. Technical Report UNSW-CSE-TR-0523, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Industry Experience:

2005, 2010 Research Assistant at the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Autonomous Systems at UNSW.
2004-05 Teaching Assistant at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW.
2003-04 Research Associate at the School of Computing at Curtin University of Technology.
2000 Technical support at Sydney Olympic Park as part of the SOCOG Olympic Games Volunteer Workforce.
1999-01 IT Support Technician/Special Projects at All Saints’ College (Western Australia).