Matthew Giamou
Scholar

Matthew Giamou

Google Scholar ID: TWcYp5sAAAAJ
McMaster University
RoboticsSensor FusionOptimization
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Mentioned achievements in areas such as multi-sensor calibration, supervised deep learning for rotations, and inverse kinematics.
Research Experience
  • - Currently an Assistant Professor at McMaster University's Department of Computing and Software, leading the Autonomous Robotics and Convex Optimization Laboratory (ARCO Lab).
  • - Previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University's Robust Autonomy Laboratory (NEURAL), developing global polynomial optimization techniques for robust machine perception.
Education
  • - PhD: Completed with Prof. Jonathan Kelly at the Space and Terrestrial Autonomous Robotic Systems (STARS) lab, University of Toronto.
  • - SM: Obtained a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Aerospace Controls Lab at MIT in 2017.
  • - BASc: Graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Science in 2015.
Background
  • Research interests include convex optimization for fast and provably globally optimal or robust solutions to geometric problems in robotics. Areas of expertise encompass multi-sensor calibration, supervised deep learning for rotations, and inverse kinematics.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests not explicitly stated; actively recruiting graduate students interested and experienced in optimization algorithms, mobile robot perception and state estimation, probability, statistics, and machine learning, motion planning and control for manipulators, and software-hardware integration experiments for autonomous ground vehicles and manipulator robots.