Dr. Felipe Gonzalez

Felipe Gonzalez is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics (EER) and a CI in the QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR) and Engineering Faculty, with a passion for innovation in the fields of aerial robotics and automation. His research interests are focused on creating aerial robots, drones, or UAVs that possess a high level of cognition using efficient on-board computer algorithms using advanced optimization and game theory approaches that assist us in understanding and improving our physical and natural world. He leads the Airborne Sensing Lab at QUT. He is the co-author of several books on UAV-based remote sensing and UAV-based design, based on evolutionary optimization and game strategies, and as of 2018, has published nearly 130 refereed papers. To date, he has been awarded $47.1M in chief investigator/partner investigator grants ($30.5M total cash + in-kind contributions). This grant income represents a mixture of sole investigator funding, ARC DP, ARC LIEF, ARC Linkages, CRCs international, multidisciplinary collaborative grants, and funding from industry. He is also a Chartered Professional Engineer, Engineers Australia–National Professional Engineers Register (NPER), a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), the IEEE, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the holder of a current Australian Private Pilot Licence (CASA PPL) and Remote Pilot Licence (RePL from CASA).