Profiles

Baris Fidan is a professor in Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, with cross appointment in System Design Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has been the principal investigator (PI) for the NSERC discovery programs`Cooperative and Adaptive Mechatronic Systems: Identification, Control, and Optimization’ and ‘Distributed Geometric Coordination of Autonomous Vehicle Networks Moving in Three Dimensions’. He has also been the PI or co-PI of various CRD projects, including `Extended UAV-based Sensing for Mapping in Support of Ground Vehicles’, `Autonomous Driving Strategies for Urban and Highway Environments’, `Development of New Technologies for Design and Popularization of Urban Vehicles’.