Chief Investigator for Spatial Registration of Semantic and Context Information, Algorithmic Efficiency & Compressed Representations Senior Lecturer with The University of Sydney, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Dr Viorela Ila is a senior lecturer with The University of Sydney, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Her research interests span from robot vision to advanced techniques for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and 3D reconstruction based on cutting-edge computational tools such as graphical models, modern optimization methods and information theory.