Contact Information
Email: roya.firoozi@uwaterloo.ca
Assistant Professor, Electrical and ComputerEngineering
Roya Firoozi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prior to this role, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University’s Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory. Roya received her Ph.D. in Control Theory, with minors in Optimization and Machine Learning, from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also earned her bachelor’s degree. Her research lies at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and control theory, with a focus on enabling safe robot autonomy in interactive, open-world environments.
Selected Publications:
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Roya Firoozi, Johnathan Tucker, Stephen Tian, Anirudha Majumdar, Jiankai Sun, Weiyu Liu, Yuke Zhu, Shuran Song, Ashish Kapoor, Karol Hausman, Brian Ichter, Danny Driess, Jiajun Wu, Cewu Lu, Mac Schwager, "Foundation Models in Robotics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future" The International Journal of Robotics Research. 2024. doi:10.1177/02783649241281508
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Ola Shorinwa and Johnathan Tucker and Aliyah Smith and Aiden Swann and Timothy Chen and Roya Firoozi and Monroe David Kennedy and Mac Schwager, “Splat-MOVER: Multi-Stage, Open-Vocabulary Robotic Manipulation via Editable Gaussian Splatting”, 8th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2024.
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Roya Firoozi, Alex Mir, Gadiel S. Camps and Mac Schwager, "OA-MPC: Occlusion-Aware MPC for Guaranteed Safe Robot Navigation with Unseen Dynamic Obstacles," in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, doi: 10.1109/TCST.2024.3520462.