| ★ Stefan Leutenegger | ETH Zurich, Mobile Robotics Lab | Switzerland | Drone SLAM, dense 3D mapping, ML for navigation | not found (use ETH directory) | ETH appointment | Direct match to your 3D reconstruction work |
| ★ Davide Scaramuzza | University of Zurich, Robotics and Perception Group | Switzerland | Vision-based agile drone flight, event cameras, learned control | sdavide@ifi.uzh.ch | RPG student projects | Apply to the PhD students listed under each project; email him only for a tailored project |
| Mirko Kovac | EPFL–Empa, Lab of Sustainability Robotics | Switzerland | Aerial robots for environmental sensing | mirko.kovac@empa.ch | Empa contact | Imperial role now honorary |
| Dario Floreano | EPFL, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems | Switzerland | Bio-inspired and morphing drones, swarms | dario.floreano@epfl.ch | EPFL Infoscience | |
| ★ Guido de Croon | TU Delft, MAVLab, Full Professor | Netherlands | Tiny drones, onboard vision, neuromorphic AI | not found | staff page | |
| Christophe De Wagter | TU Delft, MAVLab, Assistant Professor | Netherlands | Autonomous drone racing, Paparazzi autopilot | not found | MAVLab people | Flight-controller software, your ARC area |
| Erik-Jan van Kampen | TU Delft, Control and Simulation | Netherlands | Reinforcement learning for flight control | not found | TU Delft thesis, June 2026 | Supervising RL flight-control theses in 2026 |
| Javier Alonso-Mora | TU Delft, Director of TU Delft Robotics Institute | Netherlands | Multi-robot planning, multi-agent RL for drone teams | not found | staff page | |
| Antonio Franchi | University of Twente and Sapienza Rome | Netherlands / Italy | Aerial robots that touch and manipulate | not found | Twente profile | His site asks for institutional email addresses |
| Angela Schoellig | TU Munich, Learning Systems and Robotics Lab; MIRMI director | Germany | Safe learning-based control of drones | angela.schoellig@tum.de; lab: contact.lsy@xcit.tum.de | LSY profile | Lab asks for applications as one PDF |
| Florian Holzapfel | TU Munich, Institute of Flight System Dynamics | Germany | Flight control laws, eVTOL, certified flight software | florian.holzapfel@tum.de | TUM posting | Takes CS students via TUM PREP |
| Sergio Montenegro | University of Würzburg, Aerospace Information Technology | Germany | Flight software, small satellites, drones | sergio.montenegro@uni-wuerzburg.de | staff page | CS-first aerospace chair; maintains RODOS satellite OS |
| Cyrill Stachniss | University of Bonn, Photogrammetry and Robotics Lab | Germany | Mapping, SLAM, aerial photogrammetry | cyrill.stachniss@igg.uni-bonn.de | CV, Apr 2025 | Don't email about Master's admissions |
| Sabine Klinkner | University of Stuttgart, Institute of Space Systems | Germany | Small satellites, onboard computing | klinkner@irs.uni-stuttgart.de (confirm) | IRS team page | |
| ★ Stephan Weiss | University of Klagenfurt, Control of Networked Systems | Austria | Visual-inertial navigation, sensor fusion; NASA Mars Helicopter navigation | stephan.weiss@aau.at (older post; confirm) | PhD posting | Runs Europe's largest drone hall |
| ★ Friedrich Fraundorfer | TU Graz, Institute of Visual Computing | Austria | Aerial and drone 3D vision, photogrammetry | not found | TU Graz page | Multi-view reconstruction from overhead imagery |
| ★ Martin Saska | Czech Technical University in Prague, Multi-robot Systems group | Czechia | Autonomous drone swarms, onboard MPC | not found | MRS group | Group says to send your CV to him; runs a drone-swarm summer school each July |
| ★ Tor Arne Johansen | NTNU, SmallSat Lab and UAV Lab | Norway | HYPSO hyperspectral cubesats, onboard image processing | tor.arne.johansen@ntnu.no | SmallSat Lab | Satellite imagery pipelines |
| Kostas Alexis | NTNU, Autonomous Robots Lab | Norway | Drones in GPS-denied and underground spaces | konstantinos.alexis@ntnu.no | NTNU page | |
| Andrew Davison | Imperial College London, Dyson Robotics Lab | UK | SLAM, spatial AI | a.davison@imperial.ac.uk | lab contacts | |
| Amanda Prorok | University of Cambridge, Collective Intelligence and Robotics | UK | Multi-robot and multi-drone coordination, GNNs | via lab site | college page | |
| Massimiliano Vasile | University of Strathclyde, Aerospace Centre of Excellence | UK | AI for space, mission design under uncertainty | massimiliano.vasile@strath.ac.uk | staff page | |
| Paolo Robuffo Giordano | CNRS / IRISA Rennes, Rainbow team | France | Vision-based control of multi-drone systems | paolo.robuffo_giordano@irisa.fr (2016; confirm) | IRISA team page | |
| Félix Ingrand | LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, RIS group (co-lead) | France | Field and aerial robot autonomy | felix@laas.fr | LAAS page | Contact for LAAS aerial robotics; Simon Lacroix has passed away |
| Aníbal Ollero | University of Seville, GRVC; CATEC | Spain | Aerial manipulation, large EU drone projects | not found | GRVC page | |
| Javier Civera | University of Zaragoza | Spain | Visual SLAM, deep learning for 3D | not found | profile listing | Secondary source; check Unizar directory |
| Marco Lovera | Politecnico di Milano, Head of Aerospace Department | Italy | Drone flight control, system identification | department: info-daer@polimi.it | PoliMi page | |
| Pierluigi Di Lizia | Politecnico di Milano, SPIRE Lab | Italy | Space debris, orbit determination, ML for space | not found | staff page | |
| Roberto Opromolla | University of Naples Federico II | Italy | Vision-based navigation for spacecraft and UAVs | not found | 2025 seminar | |
| Miguel Olivares-Mendez | University of Luxembourg, SnT SpaceR | Luxembourg | Space robotics, lunar rovers | not found | SnT SpaceR | Runs LunaLab and Zero-G Lab |
| Jaan Praks | Aalto University, Aalto Satellites | Finland | Student cubesats, remote sensing | not found | 2025 award | |
| ★ Simone D'Amico | Stanford, Space Rendezvous Lab (SLAB) | USA | Vision-based spacecraft navigation, ML pose estimation | not found (via profile) | profile | Closest match to your satellite vision work |
| Marco Pavone | Stanford, Autonomous Systems Lab; also NVIDIA | USA | Autonomy, foundation models for space and vehicles | via profile | profile | |
| Mykel Kochenderfer | Stanford, Intelligent Systems Lab | USA | Decision-making under uncertainty, air traffic safety | via profile | CS page | Your IMC decision work transfers |
| ★ Grace Gao | Stanford, NAV Lab | USA | GNSS, lunar navigation, sensor fusion | via profile | profile | |
| ★ Mac Schwager | Stanford, Multi-Robot Systems Lab | USA | Drone swarms, navigation with Gaussian-splatting/NeRF maps | schwager@stanford.edu | Stanford page | Neural 3D reconstruction for flight |
| ⚠ Luca Carlone | MIT, SPARK Lab | USA | Spatial perception, 3D scene graphs | not found | his site | Site tells non-MIT students to apply to the grad program instead |
| Jonathan How | MIT, Aerospace Controls Lab | USA | Multi-agent planning, learning for UAVs | jhow@mit.edu | MIT page | |
| Richard Linares | MIT, ARCLab; co-director, Space Systems Lab | USA | ML for space situational awareness | linaresr@mit.edu | AeroAstro page | |
| Sertac Karaman | MIT, Director of LIDS | USA | Autonomous vehicles, fast drone planning | not found | lab site | |
| ⚠ Nicholas Roy | MIT, Robust Robotics Group | USA | Planning and perception for fast drones | assistant: bryt@mit.edu | MIT ILP | May be on leave at Zoox; confirm first |
| Sebastian Scherer | Carnegie Mellon, AirLab | USA | Autonomous aircraft, perception in degraded conditions | not found | 2025 talk | |
| Michael Kaess | Carnegie Mellon, Robot Perception Lab | USA | Incremental SLAM (iSAM), state estimation | kaess@cmu.edu | CMU page | |
| Zachary Manchester | Carnegie Mellon, Robotics Institute | USA | Trajectory optimisation for spacecraft and drones | not found | CMU RI page | CMU's RISS summer programme hosts undergrads in his lab |
| Soon-Jo Chung | Caltech, Autonomous Robotics and Control Lab; NASA JPL | USA | Learning-based control, spacecraft swarms | sjchung@caltech.edu | lab site | |
| Mark Mueller | UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering | USA | Novel drone designs, flight control | not found | Berkeley page | |
| Giuseppe Loianno | UC Berkeley EECS (since 2025); also TII Abu Dhabi | USA / UAE | Agile vision-based drone flight | not found | Berkeley · TII | TII link is a local route to him |
| ⚠ Vijay Kumar | University of Pennsylvania, now Dean of Engineering | USA | Aerial swarms, vision-based flight | not found | Kumar Lab | Unlikely to take interns directly |
| Kostas Daniilidis | University of Pennsylvania, GRASP | USA | 3D computer vision, event cameras | kostas@cis.upenn.edu | CV, June 2026 | |
| Panagiotis Tsiotras | Georgia Tech, Dynamics and Control Systems Lab | USA | Spacecraft and drone autonomy | tsiotras@gatech.edu | DCSL | Lab welcomes undergrads |
| Evangelos Theodorou | Georgia Tech, Autonomous Control and Decision Systems Lab | USA | Stochastic optimal control, MPPI | evangelos.theodorou@gatech.edu | ACDS contact | |
| ★ Frank Dellaert | Georgia Tech, Interactive Computing | USA | Factor graphs, GTSAM, SLAM | not found | 2026 talk | Same maths as your bundle adjustment |
| Dimitra Panagou | University of Michigan, Robotics and Aerospace | USA | Safe multi-agent control | not found | personal page | |
| ★ Hanspeter Schaub | CU Boulder, AVS Lab; department chair | USA | Spacecraft dynamics; maintains Basilisk simulator | hanspeter.schaub@colorado.edu | joining the lab | Worked on the UAE Hope Mars mission; contribute to Basilisk (bsk_rl) first |
| Jay McMahon | CU Boulder, ORCCA lab | USA | Navigation around asteroids | jay.mcmahon@colorado.edu | contact page | Worked on the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt |
| Morteza Lahijanian | CU Boulder, ARIA Systems group | USA | Formal methods and planning for autonomy | not found | CU experts | |
| Behçet Açıkmeşe | University of Washington, Aeronautics and Astronautics | USA | Optimisation-based guidance, rocket landing | behcet@uw.edu | UW faculty finder | |
| Ufuk Topcu | UT Austin, Autonomous Systems Group | USA | Verifiable autonomy, learning-based control | utopcu@utexas.edu | UT page | |
| Todd Humphreys | UT Austin, Radionavigation Lab; WNCG director | USA | GNSS, LEO satellite navigation, spoofing | todd.humphreys@utexas.edu | UT page | Reverse-engineered Starlink signals for navigation |
| Melkior Ornik | University of Illinois, LEADCAT group | USA | Autonomy under unknown dynamics | not found | IEEE profile | |
| Girish Chowdhary | University of Illinois, Field Robotics hub | USA | Field robots and drones for agriculture | not found | IEEE CSS bio | |
| ⚠ Ella Atkins | Virginia Tech, Head of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering | USA | Drone safety, urban air mobility | not found | VT page | Department head; limited time for interns |
| Tim Barfoot | University of Toronto, ASRL; Director of UofT Robotics Institute | Canada | State estimation, lidar and vision navigation | not found | UTIAS page | |
| Jonathan Kelly | University of Toronto, STARS Lab | Canada | Sensor fusion, calibration | jkelly@utias.utoronto.ca | UofT media | |
| Steven Waslander | University of Toronto, TRAILab | Canada | Perception for vehicles and drones | steven.waslander@robotics.utias.utoronto.ca | TRAILab | |
| Hugh Liu | University of Toronto, Flight Systems and Control; CARRE director | Canada | UAV flight control, formation flight | hugh.liu@utoronto.ca | lab page | Has a public meeting-booking calendar |
| Giovanni Beltrame | Polytechnique Montréal, MIST Lab | Canada | Swarm and space robotics software | not found | Mila page | |
| Inna Sharf | McGill, Aerospace Mechatronics Lab | Canada | Space robotics, drones, debris capture | inna.sharf@mcgill.ca | McGill page | Page says to send CVs directly |
| ★ Yahya Zweiri | Khalifa University, Aerospace; Advanced Research and Innovation Center | UAE | Drones, neuromorphic vision | yahya.zweiri@ku.ac.ae | KU profile | Local |
| ★ Jorge Dias | Khalifa University, Acting Director, Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems | UAE | Robot vision, neuromorphic perception | jorge.dias@ku.ac.ae | KU profile | Local |
| Lakmal Seneviratne | Khalifa University, founding director of KUCARS; MBZIRC technical director | UAE | Robotics and autonomy | not found | KU bio | Local |
| Anthony Tzes | NYU Abu Dhabi, Center for AI and Robotics | UAE | Multi-UAV control, robotics | anthony.tzes@nyu.edu | NYUAD list | Local |
| Ian Reid | MBZUAI, Computer Vision Department chair | UAE | SLAM, 3D vision | not found | MBZUAI profile | Local; 3D reconstruction |
| Eric Feron | KAUST, Aerospace and Transportation Systems | Saudi Arabia | Safe flight software, autonomy | not found | KAUST profile | Pair with KAUST VSRP |
| Vadim Indelman | Technion, Autonomous Navigation and Perception Lab | Israel | Belief-space planning, visual SLAM | vadim.indelman@technion.ac.il | Technion page | |
| Pini Gurfil | Technion, Distributed Space Systems Lab | Israel | Nanosatellite formation flying | pgurfil@technion.ac.il | Technion list | One database lists a former affiliation; confirm |
| Lihua Xie | NTU Singapore, Director of CARTIN | Singapore | UAV swarms, UWB localisation | elhxie@ntu.edu.sg | NTU page | |
| Guillaume Sartoretti | NUS, MARMot Lab | Singapore | Multi-agent reinforcement learning | guillaume.sartoretti@nus.edu.sg | NUS page | Hiring on UAV team coordination |
| ★ Fu Zhang | University of Hong Kong, MaRS Lab | Hong Kong | LiDAR drones, fast SLAM | not found | HKU profile | |
| Shaojie Shen | HKUST, Aerial Robotics Group; HKUST-DJI lab | Hong Kong | Visual-inertial odometry, autonomous drones | eeshaojie@ust.hk | HKUST page | |
| Peng Lu | University of Hong Kong, Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab | Hong Kong | Agile drone control, aerial manipulation | lupeng@hku.hk | lab page | |
| Ben M. Chen | CUHK, Chair of Mechanical and Automation Engineering | Hong Kong | UAV autonomy, inspection drones | bmchen@mae.cuhk.edu.hk | CUHK page | Department head |
| Fei Gao | Zhejiang University, FAST Lab | China | Swarm planning for micro drones | not found | HKUST seminar | |
| Hyunchul Shim | KAIST, Unmanned Systems Research Group | South Korea | Autonomous aircraft, drone racing | hcshim@kaist.ac.kr | lab site | Team placed 3rd at A2RL drone racing in Abu Dhabi |
| Hyun Myung | KAIST, Urban Robotics Lab | South Korea | SLAM, lidar and vision mapping | hmyung@kaist.ac.kr | lab page | |
| Ayoung Kim | Seoul National University, Robust Perception and Mobile Robotics Lab | South Korea | SLAM in hard conditions, thermal and radar | ayoungk@snu.ac.kr | SNU page | |
| H. Jin Kim | Seoul National University, Lab for Autonomous Robotics Research | South Korea | Drone control, vision-based flight | not found | lab PDF | |
| Kazuya Yoshida | Tohoku University, Space Robotics Lab | Japan | Planetary rovers, microsatellites | not found | lab site | Now Specially Appointed Professor |
| Suresh Sundaram | IISc Bangalore, Aerospace | India | ML for UAV swarms | vssuresh@iisc.ac.in | IISc page | |
| Radhakant Padhi | IISc Bangalore, Aerospace | India | Guidance and control of UAVs | padhi@iisc.ac.in | IISc page | |
| Ashwini Ratnoo | IISc Bangalore, Aerospace | India | UAV guidance and path planning | ratnoo@iisc.ac.in | IISc page | |
| Mangal Kothari | IIT Kanpur, Aerospace | India | UAV autonomy | mangal@iitk.ac.in | IITK page | |
| P.B. Sujit | IISER Bhopal, EECS | India | UAV autonomy, multi-agent planning | sujit@iiserb.ac.in | 2025 posting | Hiring on UAV projects using PX4/ArduPilot |
| Shashi Ranjan Kumar | IIT Bombay, Aerospace | India | Guidance and control of aerial vehicles | not found | IEEE AESS | |
| Arnab Maity | IIT Bombay, Aerospace | India | Guidance, optimal control | arnab@aero.iitb.ac.in | IFAC page | Former postdoc with Holzapfel |
| Hemendra Arya | IIT Bombay, Aerospace | India | UAV design and flight testing | not found | Vidwan profile | |
| ★ Tat-Jun Chin | University of Adelaide, Sentient Satellites Lab (AIML) | Australia | Computer vision for satellites and spacecraft | tat-jun.chin@adelaide.edu.au | lab | Won the ESA–Stanford spacecraft pose challenge |
| ★ Robert Mahony | Australian National University, Systems Theory and Robotics | Australia | Aerial robotics, visual-inertial filters | robert.mahony@anu.edu.au | ANU page | |
| Michael Milford | QUT, Director of Centre for Robotics | Australia | Visual place recognition, GPS-free navigation | michael.milford@qut.edu.au | profile | |
| Salah Sukkarieh | University of Sydney, Australian Centre for Robotics | Australia | Field robotics, UAV mapping | not found | ATSE page | Now mostly agricultural robotics |
| Andrew Dempster | UNSW, Director of ACSER | Australia | GNSS, space engineering | not found | IEEE AESS | |