Michael Milford

Michael Milford (b. 1981) is a multi-award winning robotics researcher and writer. As an educational entrepreneur, he has written and produced innovative textbooks for high school students for fifteen years, with more than 6000 physical sales and educational website and YouTube views in excess of 1.5 million. He is currently launching the company Math Thrills, an initiative combining mass market entertainment and STEM education. Math Thrills received pre-seed funding on Kickstarter ($2500) and seed funding ($50,000) from QUT Bluebox and is in initial school trials. The initiative has led to prestigious awards including the 2015 Queensland Young Tall Poppy of the Year Award and a 2015 TedXQUT talk.

Michael is also a leading robotics researcher conducting interdisciplinary research at the boundary between robotics, neuroscience and computer vision. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, as well as Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow and Chief Investigator on the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision.

His research has attracted more than twenty million dollars in research and industry funding, both in the form of sole investigator fellowships and large team grants. Michael's papers have won (4) or been finalists (7) for 11 best paper awards including the 2012 Best Vision paper at ICRA2012. His citation h-index is 19, with 1429 citations as of Sep 7, 2015. Ass. Prof Milford has given more than 30 invited presentations across nine countries at top international conferences, universities (including Harvard, MIT, CMU, Boston Uni, Cambridge and Imperial College London) and corporations (including Google and Microsoft).