He is currently the deputy head of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and is also the Head of the Mechatronics Engineering undergraduate program at UNSW Australia. He received his PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, specializing in robotics. His current area of research interests are in the development of large vehicle guidance methodologies for wheeled and tracked vehicles, in particular for agricultural machinery. In addition, he also develops control paradigms for vectored thrust aerial vehicles, mostly using adapted and improved versions of sliding mode controllers, model predictive algorithms and optimization methods such as sequential quadratic programming. He will share his experiences in developing autonomous agricultural machines with the conference audience.