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Daniele De Martini

Daniele De Martini is an Oxford roboticist whose AI research includes radar localisation and camera-network robot control. His background spans mechanical and mechatronics engineering, and he earned a PhD from the University of Pavia on real-time scheduling and energy management in cyber-physical systems. He joined Oxford's Mobile Robotics Group as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in 2018, became a departmental lecturer in 2023, and had an Associate Professor appointment announced by Oxford in October 2025. He coauthored kRadar++, Robot-Relay and OORD, an off-road radar dataset from the Scottish Highlands. He is Associate Professor in Mobile Robotics at Oxford and co-leads the Mobile Robotics Group with Paul Newman.

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Timeline

  1. By 2018

    Engineering and a Pavia PhD

    His background spans mechanical and mechatronics engineering, and he has a PhD from the University of Pavia. His doctoral research explores real-time scheduling and energy management in cyber-physical systems; he joins Oxford's Mobile Robotics Group as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in 2018.

  2. 2020

    A two-stage radar localiser

    In 2020, he coauthors kRadar++, a two-stage FMCW radar-localisation system that combines radar place recognition with precise pose estimation for autonomous navigation.

  3. 2022–2023

    Lectureships at Oxford and Pembroke

    In 2022, he joins Pembroke College as a part-time Stipendiary College Lecturer. From 2023, he works as Departmental Lecturer in Mobile Robotics at Oxford.

  4. 2023–2025

    Robot-Relay across camera networks

    In 2023, he coauthors Robot-Relay, which learns connections among camera viewpoints so a mobile robot can traverse connected workspaces without prior camera-position data. The work appears in Autonomous Robots in 2025.

  5. 2024

    The Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset

    In 2024, he coauthors OORD, an off-road radar dataset from the Scottish Highlands. It releases over 90 GiB of radar scans with GPS and IMU readings from four routes across 11 forays, totalling about 154 km of rugged driving.

  6. October 2025

    An associate professorship

    In October 2025, Oxford announces that he has been appointed Associate Professor.

  7. As of October 2026

    Co-leading Oxford's Mobile Robotics Group

    As of October 2026, he is Associate Professor in Mobile Robotics at the Oxford Robotics Institute and Oxford e-Research Centre and co-leads the Mobile Robotics Group with Paul Newman. His research combines robotics and AI for autonomous perception, mapping, localisation and adaptive decision-making. An Oxford article from January 2026 reports that his group tests multi-robot, multi-camera setups in a warehouse near Oxford.

Career

  1. Since 2025Keble CollegeTutorial Fellow in Engineering Science
  2. Since 2025University of OxfordAssociate Professor in Mobile Robotics
  3. 2022–2025Pembroke CollegePart-time Stipendiary College Lecturer

Education

  1. 2018University of PaviaPhD
  2. 2013Politecnico di TorinoMSc in Mechatronics Engineering
  3. 2011University of PaviaBSc in Mechanical Engineering

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Checked career sources: danieledema.github.io, eng.ox.ac.uk, eng.ox.ac.uk.

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  1. Daniele De Martini danieledema.github.io. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. New academics at the Department of Engineering Science eng.ox.ac.uk. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. kRadar++: Coarse-to-Fine FMCW Scanning Radar Localisation pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. Robot-Relay : Building-Wide, Calibration-Less Visual Servoing with Learned Sensor Handover Network arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Robot-relay: building-wide, calibration-less visual servoing with learned sensor handover networks ori.ox.ac.uk. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. OORD: The Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. Rethinking Robotics: From Intelligent Machines to Intelligent Environments oerc.ox.ac.uk. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. Daniele De Martini eng.ox.ac.uk. Checked 27 October 2026.