Shamak Dutta is a postdoc in the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research focuses on controls, optimization, and learning with applications in flight planning, sensor scheduling, and informative path planning.
Ali is a postdoc co-supervised by Prof. Stephen Smith and Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn. His research is in decision making for human-robot interaction.
Ruiqi is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo supervised by Professor Stephen L. Smith and Professor John W. Simpson-Porco. His research interests are in data driven control.
Barry Gilhuly finished his Master’s degree in the Autonomous Systems Lab in April 2020, and is continuing onto his PhD in the lab, which he started in Fall 2020. His research focuses on planning for cooperative coverage using a ground vehicle (UGV) and a drone (UAV).
Megnath is a PhD student in the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research focuses on coverage planning for mobile robots in arbitrary environments.
Rodrigue graduated in 2021 from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics. He is now a Master’s student in the Autonomous Systems lab focusing on path planning for autonomous ships in icy waters.
Jack is a MASc student co-supervised by Professor Stephen Smith and Professor Yash Pant. His research is in the area of motion planning under uncertainty.
Ahmed Hamouda is a MASc student in the Autonomous Systems Lab, co-supervised by Prof. Baris Fidan and Prof. Stephen Smith. His research focuses on motion planning for mobile robots in generic nonplanar environments.
Ninghan Zhong is a MASc student in the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research focuses on path planning in ice-covered waters for autonomous ships.
Avraiem is a MASc student in the Autonomous Systems Lab, co-supervised by Prof. Yash Pant and Prof. Stephen Smith. His research focuses on autonomous ship navigation in icy waters.Avraiem completed his bachelor of science in Mechatronics Engineering at the German University in Cairo (GUC) in July 2021. During this time, his research focused on path planning and control of unmanned aerial vehicles using nonlinear model predictive control. After completing his undergraduate degree, Avraiem gained valuable industry experience as a software engineer at Valeo Egypt.Beyond his academic and professional pursuits, Avraiem is an avid football (soccer) enthusiast.
Abhinav Dahiya was a PhD student in the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research focused on exploring the role of human parameters like expertise and trust for high-level planning in Human-Robot Collaboration.
Chuanzheng is a PhD student in the Autonomous System Lab, co-supervised with Jun Liu in Applied Math. His research is mainly focused on robotic path planning, optimal control and reinforcement learning. Chuanzheng complete his undergraduate in Tongji University, China and finished his Master's degree at the University of Sheffield, UK. He likes playing soccer and skiing.
Anni was a MASc student in the Autonomous Systems Lab. Her recent research focuses on robot motion planning under uncertainty.
Alex Botros was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research focuses primarily on local planners and trajectory generation for autonomous vehicles. In particular, Alex is researching the problem of computing minimal t-spanning sets of edges for state lattices with the goal of using these sets as motion primitives for autonomous vehicles.
Armin was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Autonomous Systems Lab. His general research interests are in the areas of control and optimization with focus on multi-robot task allocation in ride-sourcing and coverage control applications.
I am a Master's student in the Autonomous Systems Lab. During my undergraduate degree at l'Université de Moncton I was a member of a robotics club where I became passionate for autonomous systems. My current research focuses on developing a safety framework for autonomous mobile robots in a warehouse setting.
Yifan is a MASc student in Autonomous Systems Lab. She received her bachelor degree from the University of British Columbia in May 2020. Her major was Mechanical Engineering with Mechatronics Option.
Sara was a Master’s student in the Autonomous Systems Lab. Her research interests are in control and optimization with a focus on robot motion planning.
Olzhas Adiyatov was a masters' student in the Autonomous Systems Lab, co-supervised with Professor Baris Fidan. His research focuses on navigation and autonomy for unmanned ground vehicles.
Andrew Downie was a master’s Student in the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research mainly focuses on Distributed Submodular Optimization.
He is now working at RBC Markets as an AI Engineer.
Frank (YiFeng) Wang was a Master's student in the Autonomous Systems Lab co-supervised by Professor Chris Nielsen. His research focused on local planning and autonomous control for navigation in uncertain environments. Frank completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the University of Alberta.
Tristan Walker completed his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, supervised by Professor Stephen Smith. Tristan completed his undergraduate degree in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Tristan's research focused on dead reckoning for players in online games. He also worked on active sensing for repeated robot tasks.
Nils Wilde received his BSc. and MSc. degrees from the Technical University Berlin in 2012 and 2016, respectively. In 2016 he became a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Waterloo under the co-supervision of Professor Dana Kulić and Professor Stephen L.
Ahmad Bilal Asghar completed his PhD in the Autonomous Systems Lab in May 2020. His research focuses on path planning techniques for robotic monitoring and surveillance of stochastic and possibly intelligent or adversarial events. He completed his Master's at the University of Waterloo in 2015 and his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences, School of Science and Engineering.
Florence Tsang completed her Master's degree in the Autonomous Systems Lab in January 2020. Her research focuses on improving navigation efficiency in uncertain environments. She completed her undergraduate degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary. When she is not working with robots, she enjoys learning other languages and trying new recipes.
Ryan attended the University of British Columbia for his undergraduate studies and completed a BASc in Electrical Engineering in 2017. He then went on to complete a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo under the co-supervision of Stephen L.
Pamela's research focused on understanding and analyzing interactive human motion and behaviour. In particular, she is interested in determining which motion patterns and coordination strategies observed in human teams can be used to build robotic systems capable of close, efficient, fluid, and extended cooperation with humans.
Alex completed his MASc in 2019. He worked in both the Autonomous Systems Lab, advised by Prof. Smith and in the Adaptive Systems Lab, advised by Prof. Dana Kulic.
Frank received the B.Sc. degree in physics, the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2003, 2013, and 2018, respectively.
Current position: Embedded Software Developer at Geotab in Kitchener, ON.
Current location: Senior Software Developer at Darwin AI in Waterloo, ON
Thesis: Minimizing Turns in Single and Multi Robot Coverage Path Planning