Ethan Yifu Tao 陶奕甫
Robotics and Comptuer Vision, University of Oxford

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Dynamic Robot System Group (DRS) of the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI), University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Maurice Fallon. I am currently also a visitor at ETH working with Prof. Stefan Leutenegger. I am generally interested in robot perception, in particular 3D modelling for navigation and manipulation.
I completed my DPhil thesis in 2025, conducted also in DRS. During my DPhil, I worked on dense 3D reconstruction using both vision and LiDAR. Prior to my DPhil, I finished my undergraduate study in Engineering Science also at the University of Oxford with a MEng degree at 2020. For my master’s thesis, I worked on human body 3D reconstruction supervised by Prof. Philip Torr.
News
Sep 09, 2025 | SiLVR has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)! |
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Jul 28, 2025 | I will be visiting ETH for 3 months working with Prof. Stefan Leutenegger! This is partially supported by the UK-RAS Network’s Travel Grant. |
May 12, 2025 | Oxford Spires Dataset aceepted to IJRR. This work connects SLAM research with NeRF/3DGS is released. TLS ground truth 3D map, colour cameras, lidar, all in one. |
May 02, 2025 | The Code for SiLVR ICRA2024 has now been released! |
Mar 03, 2025 | I submitted my DPhil thesis. |