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Dr Matthew Budd
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linkedin.com/in/matthew-budd
matthew-budd@outlook.com
@m_budd
+44 (0) 7825 795410
London // Oxford
Curriculum Vitae
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"Graphic Design is my Passion"
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With thanks to github.com/ariutta/svg-pan-zoom and numerous other open-source tools,
including the well-known WYSIWYG web design tool, KiCAD [www.kicad-pcb.org].
github.com/matbudd
Interesting Links
They all said I was crazy! A whole website in an
SVG image? They all said it couldn't be done!
Well, look who's laughing now!
Selected Publications
• Model-based sequential decision making
• Metareasoning in stochastic environments
• Bayesian / probabilistic reinforcement learning
• Communication-aware decision-making
• Safety constrained autonomous systems
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2020
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2024
2023
2022
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2021
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RoboCup Bangkok 2022
Oxford Robotics Institute coverage
RoboCup Sydney, 2019
Oxford Robotics Institute news item
Pembroke College news item
MEng Master's Project, 2020
Thesis
Mars Rover Competition, 2018-19
Engineering department news item
Critical Design Review document
Competition site
CERN Large Hadron Collider
instrumentation group design
project, 2018-19
Final presentation
(presented to Beam Instrumentation
Group at CERN in Geneva)
Final technical report
RoboSerf project at Cambridge
Consultants, 2015
News item
Budd, M., Duckworth, P., Hawes, N., & Lacerda, B. (2023,
March). Bayesian reinforcement learning for single-
episode missions in partially unknown environments.
6th
Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
1.
Budd, M., Lacerda, B., & Hawes, N. (2024, February).
Stop! Planner Time
: Metareasoning for
Probabilistic
Planning Using Learned Performance
Profiles.
38th
AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI)
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Budd, M., Salavasidis, G., Kamarudzaman, I., Harris, C. A.,
Phillips, A. B., Hawes, N., Duckworth, P., & Lacerda, B.
(2022, October). Probabilistic Planning for AUV Data
Harvesting from Smart Underwater Sensor Networks.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems (IROS).
Budd, M., Duckworth, P., Hawes, N., & Lacerda, B. (2021,
August). Mission Planning in Unknown Environments as
Bayesian Reinforcement Learning.
IJCAI’21 Workshop on
Robust and Reliable Autonomy in the Wild (R2AW).
Budd, M., Lacerda, B., Duckworth, P., West, A., Lennox, B.,
& Hawes, N. (2020, October). Markov Decision Processes
with Unknown State Feature Values for Safe Exploration
using Gaussian Processes.
IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
In 2025 I completed a PhD, then was a Postdoctoral
Researcher in the
GOALS lab
at the Oxford Robotics
Institute. An incomplete list of research areas is:
I am a robotics engineer working on autonomous
decision-making under uncertainty.
2.
Stephens, A.*, Budd, M.*, Staniaszek, M., Casseau, B.,
Duckworth, P., Fallon, M., Hawes, N., & Lacerda, B.
Planning under uncertainty for safe robot exploration
using Gaussian process prediction.
Autonomous Robots volume 48.
(* equal contribution)
I completed a PhD at the Oxford Robotics Institute
robots with arms, legs, wheels, and propellors.
in 2025. This included working with a menagerie of