Charlie Hadfield
Charlie HadfieldLondon, UK

Hey, I'm Charlie, a research engineer working at the seam of hardware and software: high-speed cameras, neuromorphic sensors, and the systems that make them useful. Currently at Imperial College London and co-founder of Averon Scientific.

Work

DART

Auto-tracking high-speed camera for motion-capture labs

Reads a live motion-capture feed and re-aims a two-mirror optical path at up to 500 Hz to keep a fast, unpredictable subject framed and sharp. Started at Imperial, now a product at Averon Scientific.

Based in

London, UK

Fulham · SW6

Project

Isaac Event Vision

Neuromorphic DVS plugin for NVIDIA Isaac Lab

The first event-camera sensor to run inside Isaac Lab's GPU-parallel RL loop, rather than offline. Sub-frame events from RTX motion vectors, validated against v2e across several motion types.

The assembled microfluidic sorter chip
Project

Germ Cell Sorter

Designed and built end to end, from the chip to the control loop

A solo Imperial MEng build: a hydrodynamic focusing chip, dual-channel fluorescence/brightfield optics, LabVIEW/DAQ detection, and pressure-pulse sorting for GFP-tagged germ cells.

Coming soon

OpenMV Ground Robot

Vision-driven ground robot for a teaching module

A ground robot I designed around the OpenMV vision camera for a hands-on teaching module. Full write-up coming soon.

Skills
Off the clock
01 · NowBuilding DART's mocap platform toward a v1 release.
02 · ReadingDungeon Crawler Carl.
03 · TrainingGym, cycling, and football.
Cavalier King Charles spaniel
PA (pup assistant)Off duty
Night market in Taipei
Travel · 2025Taipei