Alexander Wallen Kiessling

Short Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. student at DISAL working on gas source localization and multi-robot systems. In 2024 I finished my master thesis at the Swedish Maritime Robotics Center, which focused on informative path planning for autonomous underwater vehicles. Previously I have also worked on perception for drones in forestry tasks as a research engineer at the Robotics, Perception and Learning department of KTH in Sweden.

Further information:

  • EPFL contact page

Topics of Interest

Broadly speaking, I am interested in any topic related to autonomy for mobile robots performing difficult/dangerous tasks in harsh/unstructured environments (usually referred to as field robotics).

Teaching 

I am involved as a teaching assistant in the courses Signals and Systems (ENG-366) and Distributed Intelligent Systems (ENG-466).

Publications