Faculty

Francisco Andrade-Chavez is an Assistant Professor at Thompson Rivers University and an Adjunct Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo with a deep passion for robotics and human-robot collaboration. His research interests revolve around making legged robots, particularly humanoid robots, useful outside labs.

This involves developing novel control frameworks, enhancing robotic sensing capabilities, designing wearable sensors, analyzing human motion both with and without contact with robots, and improving robots' base estimation. The current real-world applications he is pursuing are socio-physical human-robot collaboration and tele-existence with varying levels of shared autonomy.

Professor Yash Pant leads the Control, Learning and Logic (CL2) group, which focuses on decision-making for multi-agent and autonomous systems, finding applications for ground robots, human-robot interaction, and aerial robot swarms.

Professor Gennaro Notomista is the Varma Family Professor in Robotics, focused on the design and control of robotic systems for long-duration autonomy with applications to persistent environmental monitoring for climate change ecological studies.

Professor Ehsan Hashemi is the Director of the NODE Lab research group at the University of Alberta and an expert on autonomous navigation, distributed controls, and assistive robotics.

Professor Yue Hu specializes in human-robot interactions and human-centric robotics, focusing on understanding different aspects of humans when physically interacting with a robot.

Professor Maya Przybylski is the O'Donovan Director of the School of Architecture, the Director of the DATALab, and an expert on the complex intersection of architectural design, data and computation.

Professor David Correa is an expert in bio-inspired architecture, including bio-materials, 4-D printing, material structures, adaptive and self-forming systems, and advanced robotic fabrication.

Professor Oliver Schneider is an expert on haptics, haptic computing, and human-computer interaction. He is working on methods to facilitate the widescale deployment of haptic technology.

Professor Hamed Shahsavan is an expert on the development of soft and programmable materials and their applications in the design and fabrication of mobile soft robots, functional devices, and artificial biological organisms.

Professor Moojan Ghafurian is an expert on human-computer interaction and how it relates to assistive technology used in the care of older adults.