Lachlan Toohey
Co-Founder at University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLachlan Toohey is a robotics engineer and co-founder with 15 years' experience designing localisation, calibration, planning and control systems for autonomous underwater vehicles. He holds a PhD in Robotics from the University of Sydney and has led both research and operational programs as a postdoctoral researcher and senior technical officer at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics. Lachlan combines algorithm development and hands-on software engineering with extensive field leadership, running remote offshore deployments for the IMOS AUV Facility and managing long-term marine data assets. He’s skilled at taking novel cooperative localisation ideas from simulation into robust, sea-tested systems and has taught introductory programming to engineering students. Now scaling those capabilities through Seascape Autonomy, he blends academic rigour with product-minded execution to solve real-world marine autonomy challenges. A lesser-known strength is his long experience in end-to-end data management for multi-year underwater imagery collections, giving him deep insight into practical sensor and lifecycle issues.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (6)
image-data8
large-scale5
image-processing5
visualization4
scale4
computer-vision4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ltoohey/debdocker
Dec 2016 - Apr 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
seascapeautonomy/seascapeautonomy.github.io
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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