Rate My Professor Kieran Quirke-Brown

Quirke-Brown earned a Master of Professional Engineering from the University of Western Australia, a Master of Information Technology from the University of Queensland, and a PhD from UWA in 2025. His doctoral thesis, Reactive and proactive autonomous driving techniques, investigates SAE Level 4 autonomy through mathematical-model-based methods like SLAM and local control for campus driving, and end-to-end AI models using vision and LiDAR for suburban driving, enhanced by safety systems. The work highlights that simulations underrepresent real-world conditions, with sequential models outperforming CNNs and SSMs showing strong results in compact forms. His research focuses on autonomous vehicles and robotics in practical implementations. Key publications include Managing Risk in the Design of Modular Systems for an Autonomous Shuttle (2024, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, co-authored with T. Drage et al.) and A Generative Self-Diagnosis Disengagement Reporting System for Autonomous Shuttles (2025, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, co-authored with X. Kong et al.). In 2022, as a PhD student, he led a team demonstrating UWA's driverless bus in northern Western Australia.