Ioannis Havoutis
Professor · eng.ox.ac.uk · University of Oxford
Quick answer: Ioannis Havoutis is Professor at University of Oxford. Ioannis Havoutis shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ I am open to supervising DPhil students with an interest in legged locomotion, motion planning, trajectory optimization, skill representation and learning by demonstration.
Research interests
Dr Havoutis' research focuses the combination of machine learning with dynamic whole-body motion planning and control, targeting robots with arms and legs. Building on his previous work, Ioannis is interested both in the locomotion and manipulation aspects of autonomous robots.
He is a co-lead of the Dynamic Robotic Systems (DRS) group -- an integrated research lab within the Oxford Robotics Institute. He lead the research direction of robotic legged locomotion, designing and implementing of algorithms that enable autonomous legged mobility. His focus is on approaches for dynamic whole-body motion planning and control that allow robots with legs to robustly operate in a variety of challenging domains.
His work aims to answer questions such as: which path should the robot choose to reach its goal? how should the body and the individual joints of the robot move? which footholds and potential handholds maximize the robustness of the locomotion behaviour?
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2026] Artificial neural networks for HD-sEMG-based hand position estimation: addressing inter- and intra-subject variability.
[2026] PlatoLTL: Learning to Generalize Across Symbols in LTL Instructions for Multi-Task RL
[2026] MetaSym: A Symplectic Meta-learning Framework for Physical Intelligence
[2026] Acrobotics: A Generalist Approach to Quadrupedal Robots' Parkour
[2026] InteLiPlan: An Interactive Lightweight LLM-Based Planner for Domestic Robot Autonomy
[2025] QuantGraph: A Receding-Horizon Quantum Graph Solver
[2025] Vision-Language-Policy Model for Dynamic Robot Task Planning
[2025] RAKOMO: Reachability-Aware K-Order Markov Path Optimization for Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation
[2025] Adaptive Manipulation using Behavior Trees
[2025] Sampling Strategies for Robust Universal Qu
Frequently asked questions
Is Ioannis Havoutis hiring PhD students at University of Oxford?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Ioannis Havoutis's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: I am open to supervising DPhil students with an interest in legged locomotion, motion planning, trajectory optimization, skill representation and learning by demonstration..
What does Ioannis Havoutis research?
Dr Havoutis' research focuses the combination of machine learning with dynamic whole-body motion planning and control, targeting robots with arms and legs. Building on his previous work, Ioannis is interested both in the locomotion and manipulation aspects of autonomous robots.
He is a co-lead of th
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