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.