Christopher Lehnert
Associate Professor
Queensland, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristopher Lehnert is an Associate Professor and robotics researcher with 12 years of experience focused on robotic grasping and manipulation for horticulture and warehouse automation. He develops end-to-end perception systems using colour and depth cameras, designs novel grippers and harvesting tools, and advances grasp planning algorithms aimed at real-world industrial problems. Based in Queensland, Australia, he has progressed through academic ranks at QUT from Associate Lecturer to Associate Professor while completing a PhD in Robotics. His work uniquely bridges applied research and deployable solutions for agricultural automation, emphasizing robustness to variable crop environments. Christopher combines hands-on hardware design with algorithmic expertise, often translating lab innovations into field-ready systems. He is known for tackling practical constraints—like delicate crop handling and unstructured scenes—that distinguish his research from purely theoretical robotics.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (32)
snmp10
middleware10
device-management10
visualization10
dashboard10
netty10
widgets10
coap10
kafka10
java10
lwm2m10
iot-platform10
data-collection9
data-stream9
data-management9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lehnert/move_to_see
Feb 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
lehnert/muAV
Nov 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.