Niki Trigoni

Founder and CSO, Navenio

Professor Niki Trigoni FREng leads the Systems Research Theme at the Oxford Department of Computer Science and is Founder and CSO of Navenio. Her research interests lie at the interface of sensing and machine intelligence for context inference, control and human-machine interaction. She has focused on infrastructure-free indoor localisation and 3D scene understanding for healthcare, mobile autonomy and emergency response. Trigoni has founded and served from 2014-2019 as Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training on Autonomous and Intelligent Machines and Systems. She is also the Founder of Navenio Ltd, a deep tech Oxford spinout on infrastructure free indoor positioning, and a 2020 KPMB Best British Tech Pioneer. In 2020 and 2022, she won the CTO of the Year award at the UK's Women in IT Awards, demonstrating impact from translating positioning tech to improve efficiency in the healthcare sector.