William Melek, PEng

William Melek is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He also serves as the Director of the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Automation, and the Director of RoboHub.

The Laboratory of Computational and Intelligence Automation conducts research on modular robotics and Intelligent Systems Modeling and Control. The research efforts place emphasis on manufacturing and automotive applications which involves design of modeling and control algorithms for flexible automation, autonomous systems and vehicles stability systems. Bioinformatics is also an area of research undertaken by Professor Melek and his team. This research involves clinical decision-support systems and non-convex optimization methods for scheduling clinical resources.

• Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Control, Mechatronics, Automotive Design Modeling & Control of Advanced Mechatronics Systems, Modular and Reconfigurable Robotics & Automation, Autonomous Navigation and Mobile Manipulation, Computational Intelligence, Advanced robotics, Autonomous vehicles, Hybrid and electric vehicles, Big data/analytics, Sensors and devices, Autonomous and connected car, Advanced Manufacturing, Operational Artificial Intelligence

• 2004, Post Doctorate Computer Science, Ryerson University, Canada

• 2002, Doctorate Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

• 1998, Master's Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

• 1994, Bachelor's B.A.Sc in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Zagazig University , Cairo, Egypt

• 2006 Young Engineer Medal

• 1999 Ontario Graduate Scholarship of Science and Technology (OGSST)

• 2001 University of Toronto Open Fellowship

• ME 360 - Introduction to Control Systems
  • Taught in 2024
• ME 597 - Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
  • Taught in 2025
• ME 744 - Computational Intelligence
  • Taught in 2025
• ME 780 - Special Topics in Mechatronics
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2024
• MTE 100 - Mechatronics Engineering
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2025
• MTE 380 - Mechatronics Engineering Design Workshop
  • Taught in 2021, 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Mohamed Mehrez, Karl Worthmann, Joseph Cenerini, Mostafa Osman, William Melek, Soo Jeon, Model Predictive Control without Terminal Constraints or Costs for Holonomic Mobile Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, , 2020

• Ahuja, Siddhant and Iles, Peter and Waslander, Steven L, Three-dimensional Scan Registration using Curvelet Features in Planetary Environments, Journal of Field Robotics, 243, 2016

• Gharibi, Mirmojtaba and Boutaba, Raouf and Waslander, Steven L, Internet of drones, IEEE Access, 1148, 2016

• Tribou, Michael J and Wang, David WL and Waslander, Steven L, Degenerate motions in multicamera cluster SLAM with non-overlapping fields of view, Image and Vision Computing, 27, 2016

• Daly, John M and Ma, Yan and Waslander, Steven L, Coordinated landing of a quadrotor on a skid-steered ground vehicle in the presence of time delays, Autonomous Robots, 179, 2015

• Mathew, Neil and Smith, Stephen L and Waslander, Steven L, Planning paths for package delivery in heterogeneous multirobot teams, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 1298, 2015

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