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education
University of Oxford — Current DPhil in Engineering Science Supervisor: Prof Maurice Fallon Thesis: A Unified Approach to Semantic and Geometric Mapping
Imperial College London — 2017–2022 MEng in Biomedical Engineering Supervisor: Prof Anthony Bull Thesis: Terrain prediction using high density sEMG and IMU for lower limb prosthetics
past positions
Seoul National University — 2025 Visiting Researcher — RPM Robotics Lab under Ayoung Kim, working on monocular semantic SLAM
Imperial College London — 2022 Undergraduate Research Assistant — Real-time object recognition and camera control under varying lighting conditions for a wheeled robot
Össur — 2020–2021 Research and Innovation Intern — Designing a control system for lower limb prosthetics using IMU and surface EMG
Queen Mary’s Hospital — 2019 Gait Lab Assistant — Analysis of stroke patients’ gait using Visual3D and Qualisys, with rehabilitation recommendations
teaching
University of Oxford — 2025 Teaching Assistant — Tutorial teaching and coursework marking for a course on optimisation
University of Oxford — 2024 Teaching Assistant — Lab assistance for the AIMS CDT course on autonomous exploration, including giving a SLAM tutorial
Imperial College London — 2021 Teaching Assistant — Lead TA of a Python course on fundamental concepts of good programming practices
publications
Christina Kassab, Sacha Morin, Martin Buchner, Matias Mattamala, Kumaraditya Gupta, Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull, Maurice Fallon, “OpenLex3D: A New Evaluation Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations,” NeurIPS, 2025
Christina Kassab, Matias Mattamala, Sacha Morin, Martin Buchner, Abhinav Valada, Liam Paull, Maurice Fallon, “The Bare Necessities: Designing Simple, Effective, Open-Vocabulary Scene Graphs,” NeurIPS, 2025
Christina Kassab, Matias Mattamala, Lintong Zhang, Maurice Fallon, “Language-EXtended Indoor SLAM (LEXIS): A Versatile System for Real-time Visual Scene Understanding,” ICRA, 2024
Jianeng Wang, Matias Mattamala, Christina Kassab, Lintong Zhang, Maurice Fallon, “Exosense: A Vision-Centric Scene Understanding System for Safe Exoskeleton Navigation,” RA-L, 2025
Jianeng Wang, Matias Mattamala, Christina Kassab, Nived Chebrolu, Guillaume Burger, Fabio Elnecave, Marine Petriaux, Maurice Fallon, “LT-Exosense: A Vision-centric Multi-session Mapping System for Lifelong Safe Navigation of Exoskeletons,” arXiv, 2025
invited talks
“OpenLex3D: A New Evaluation Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations” — SafeVLM Workshop, ICRA 2025
“Visual-Language Models for Scene Understanding and Localisation” — BMVA Symposium on Vision and Language, 2024
“Visual SLAM for Exoskeletons: Enabling Accurate Navigation in Complex Environments” — Computer Vision for Wearable Robotics Workshop, ICRA 2023
awards
Best MEng Project Presentation — Highest scoring MEng Project, 2022
Device Access Prize for Best Bioengineering Undergraduate Poster Finalist — Biomedical Engineering Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2022
professional activities
Reviewing — RA-L, ICRA, IROS, BMVC, ICCV, CVPR
Leadership — Student Representative, RAS Technical Committee on Computer and Robot Vision; President, Oxford Robotic Graduate Society
technical skills
Programming — C++, Python
Development — Git, ROS1/ROS2