Dr. Thomas Whelan

I am currently a Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs.

Before, I was a Dyson Research Fellow at the Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, which is led by Professor Andrew Davison. My research focuses on real-time dense visual SLAM and on a broader scale, general robotic perception.

Previously I was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, where I was supervised by Dr. John McDonald. I also completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science & Software Engineering at Maynooth.

I spent the summer of 2012 as a visiting researcher at the Marine Robotics Group at CSAIL, MIT under the supervision of Professor John J. Leonard.

Between 2010 and 2013 I was a core member of RoboEireann, a humanoid robotic soccer team in the RoboCup Standard Platform League.