My research focuses on modelling, simulation, model-based control, and optimal design of dynamic physical systems.
Awards
• Engineering Medal for Engineering Excellence from Professional Engineers Ontario, 2019
• Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, Waterloo Engineering, 2018
• Teaching Excellence Award, Waterloo Engineering, 2018
• Best Paper Presentation Award, SAE World Congress, 2018
• Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, since 2016
• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, 2016
• NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation, 2014
• Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, since 2014
• Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013
• Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers, since 2011
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, since 2005
• Best Paper Award, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2003
• I.W. Smith Award, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001
• Premier's Research Excellence Award, Province of Ontario, 2000
• Sandford Fleming Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Engineering, 1998
• NATO/NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1990-1992
Courses Taught
• SD 181: Physics 1 (Statics)
• SD 182: Physics 2 (Dynamics)
• SD 281: Mechanics of Deformable Solids
• BME 450: Sports Engineering
• SD 553: Advanced Dynamics
• SD 652: Dynamics of Multibody Systems
Service
• Chair, International Association for Multibody System Dynamics, 2016-2018 (Vice-Chair,2018-2022)
• Science Advisor, Golf Digest
• Contributing Editor, Multibody System Dynamics
• Past Executive Director, Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research
• Associate Editor, Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems
• Associate Editor, Mechanics-Based Design of Structures and Machines
• Editorial Board Member, Energy and AI
• Editorial Board Member, Applied Sciences Journal
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems
• Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems
• Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neurorobotics