Please join the Division in congratulating Dr Tom Carlson on being promoted to Senior Lecturer in the Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Fellow Promotion 2016-17. Tom's promotion is effective 1st October 2017.
Dr Tom Carlson
Dr Tom Carlson joined UCL as a Lecturer in 2013. He completed both his MEng in
Electronics (2006) and his PhD in Intelligent Robotics (2010) at Imperial College London. He then spent 3.5 years working as a postdoctoral research associate in the CNBI lab, Centre for Neuroprosthetics, EPFL, Switzerland. At UCL, Tom is based in Aspire Create – the Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology on the RNOH/Stanmore campus, where he is Educational Lead and also Director of the Centre’s new MSc programme.
Tom’s research focus is on the user-centred design of assistive robotic technologies for people with spinal cord injuries. He is particularly interested human-robot interaction and is developing shared control techniques for wheelchairs, robotic exoskeletons and brain-machine interfaces. He has been involved in several large projects, including the Swiss NCCR Robotics and the EU FP7 project TOBI : Tools for Brain-Computer Interaction, which was rated at the highest level, "excellent progress", in the final project review. He currently has a number of funded projects, including: “ADAPT: Assistive Devices for empowering disAbled People through robotic Technologies” (EU INTERREG); “Shared Control for Wheelchair Interfaces” (SLMS GC); “WESkid: Wheelchair Early Skills Development” (CONACYT/IBME); and “RESPONSS: Rehabilitation Technologies Supporting Clinical and Self-management of Spasticity” (Leslie Trust).
He is an active member of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics society and co-founded the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Shared Control in 2012, which he co-chaired until 2015, when it won the most active TC award. Together with Dr Marie Babel (Irisa, Rennes, France), Tom co-directs the INRIA associated team “ISI4NAVE”, which investigates “Innovative sensors and adapted interfaces for assistive navigation and pathology evaluation”. Since 2016, he is also a visiting professor at LAMIH, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut–Cambrésis, France.
