Robert Mahony is a Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering, and a fellow of the IEEE.  He leads the Systems Theory and Robotics Group that undertakes research in non-linear systems and control with applications in robotics and computer vision.  He played a pioneering role in developing non-linear filters for attitude estimation, an enabling technology in the early development of aerial robotic vehicles that underpins the modern multi-billion-dollar drone industry. He did seminal work on the control of quadrotor vehicles and was one of the champions in their early development and worldwide adoption. In other work he developed geometric optimization algorithms for eigenspace computation, developed algorithms for visual state estimation, and did fundamental work in designing asynchronous algorithms for processing event camera data.