Welcome to my site! I'm a second year PhD student at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, working in the LAIV and VoiLab under Professors Ekaterina Komendantskaya and Ignazio Maria Viola. My reseach is on the simulation and control of bio-inspired microgliders, specifically on investigating robustness and safety properties of neural network controllers.

I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, and previously worked as a software engineering intern at Altair Engineering and WMG Warwick.

I do photography as a hobby; see my site and instagram.

Publications

(Upcoming) The flight of Alsomitra macrocarpa

Daniele Certini, Cathal Cummins, Colin Kessler, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Yunjie Yang, Francesco Giorgio-Serchi, Ignazio Maria Viola. Royal Society Interface, 2025

Conference Proceedings

(Pre-print) Neural Network Verification for Gliding Drone Control: A Case Study

Colin Kessler, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Marco Casadio, Ignazio Maria Viola, Thomas Flinkow, Albaraa Ammar Othman, Alistair Malhotra, Robbie McPherson. Symposium on AI Verification, 2025