Dr Ami Drory

Ami Drory is a senior research fellow at the National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction Research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. He is currently working on using markerless pose estimation techniques to quantify vigilance of critical mission operators with Australian Defense. He earned a PhD in Engineering and Computer Science under Richard Hartley and Hongdong Li at one of the world's leading computer vision labs at the Australian National University (ANU). Through this work he developed techniques for markerless pose and surface geometry estimation, activity recognition and tracking for biomechanics applications. Prior to joining the University of New South Wales, he was an assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham UK. Beforehand he held a Biomedical Engineering research fellow position at the Centre for Bionic Medicine at the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University US, where he undertook research in assistive technology and using wearable sensors, computer vision and machine learning techniques to make clinical predictions and diagnostics in rehabilitation. Previously, he also held a five year biomechanist position with the Australian Institute of Sport tasked with improving the performance of Australian national athletes in preparation for the Olympics and World championships. In this role, he led research projects that include venue instrumentation, musculoskeletal testing, windtunnel testing and person-equipment interface design. Earlier, he researched the use of IMU-based sensor networks for motion capture at the University of Sydney with Professor Richard Smith. Ami currently holds the position of an associate editor of the Journal of Sport Engineering, the journal of the International Sports Engineering Association.