Elena Vella

Thesis Title

Aspects of Markov Decision Processes on Networks: An Applied focus to Modelling Human trusted Interactions, Preference Learning, Epidemic Spread and Multi-copter Power-line Monitoring

Research overview

Elena is working in the field of autonomous systems and swarm robotics. She is interested in trusted social interactions with muti-agent systems, swarm robotics, distributed behaviour of agents and human robotic swarm collaboration. She studies Markov Decision Processes on networks, combining learning techniques with data drive control. Elena is passionate about building strong partnerships through interdisciplinary collaborations between different faculties to deliver innovation in engineering and research. Her current research investigates the motion of humans and how they react and collaborate with a robotic swarm in an exhibit piece Sacrifice.

Supervisors

Dr Airlie Chapman

Dr Nir Lipovetzky

Qualifications

M.Eng.  Mechatronics, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2016)

B.Sc. Mechanical Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2014)

Dip. Languages (French), The University of Melbourne, Australia (2014)