Tobias Fischer

Dr. Tobias Fischer is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in the School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics, Faculty of Engineering. He is an ARC DECRA Fellow and leads research in robotics, computer vision, and computational cognition. His work focuses on enabling robots to interact with humans through perception systems inspired by animal visual systems. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and has held postdoctoral roles at Imperial College's Personal Robotics Lab.

Education: PhD (Imperial College London, 2019), MSc (University of Edinburgh, 2014), BSc (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, 2013). Scholarships include the German National Academic Foundation and DECRA Fellowship.

Research interests span bio-inspired neural networks, event-based vision, spiking neural networks, and neuromorphic computing. He has led projects funded by Intel, Amazon, Samsung, EU, and Australian Research Council, including $462,000 DECRA grant for adaptive robot positioning. Key awards include the 2023 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award and Queen Mary UK Best PhD in Robotics.

Teaching includes units like EGB339 Introduction to Robotics and EGB439 Advanced Robotics. Supervision involves PhD students in place recognition and underwater imagery. His lab, QUT Centre for Robotics, focuses on long-term localization and bio-inspired autonomy.