Margarita Chli

Margarita Chli

Margarita Chli is an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and head of the Vision for Robotics Lab (www.v4rl.ethz.ch). Originally coming from Greece and Cyprus, she received both her Bachelor and Master degrees in Information and Computing Engineering from Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2006, she moved to Imperial College London, UK, where she completed her PhD in applying Information Theory for efficient Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), under the guidance of Prof. Andrew Davison. In 2010, she joined the Autonomous Systems Lab of ETH Zurich as a Postdoctoral Researcher and later on, as a Lab Deputy Director. In 2013, she moved to the University of Edinburgh, UK to accept the prestigious Chancellor's Fellowship, before returning to ETH Zurich in 2015 to accept a Swiss National Science Foundation Assistant Professorship, while continuing to hold an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests focus on developing vision-based perception for robots, especially on low-computation platforms, such as small aerial vehicles.