As technical lead in the ORIGAMI project (European Defence Fund), at IMEC & VUB, I work on drone localization and navigation: reliable autonomy in the real world requires robust multi-sensor fusion, strong localization, and perception that holds up under harsh conditions.

Focus

• Full drone platform: architected and integrated hardware, sensing, and autonomy software
• Multi-sensor fusion for autonomous drones (RGB, LiDAR, multispectral, IMU, GNSS)
• Localization and state estimation in 3D environments as part of a deployable autonomy stack
• World models for perception and autonomous navigation

What I’m working on

• Leading the technical development of the drone autonomy stack.
• Developing world-model-based methods for autonomous navigation.
• Fusing complementary signals across sensors to improve robustness to missing/noisy inputs.
• Building deployment-minded systems: latency-aware, stable, and testable on real platforms.

Project date

2026