Our Team

Advisor

Prof. James Richard Forbes

James Richard Forbes received his B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Honours, Co-op) from the University of Waterloo in 2006. James was awarded his M.A.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Science and Engineering from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies in 2008 and 2011, respectively. James is currently an Associate Professor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University. James is an Associate Member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM), and a Member of the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD). James is the recipient of a William Dawson Scholar award. James was awarded the McGill Associate for Mechanical Engineering (MAME) Professor of the Year Award in 2016, and the Engineering Class of 1944 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2018.

James' Calendar

Post Doc Fellow

Dr. Thomas Hitchcox


AUV Navigation

Ph.D. Candidate

Steven Dahdah

Ph.D. Candidate
Industrial Robot Control

Mitchell Cohen

Ph.D. Candidate
Dynamic SLAM

John Kyungmin Jung

Ph.D. Candidate
AUV Navigation

Vassili Korotkine

Ph.D. Candidate
Dynamic SLAM

Arturo Del Castillo

Ph.D. Candidate
AUV Navigation

Master's Thesis Candidate

Philippe Decoste

M.Sc. Thesis Candidate
Thermal SLAM

Syed Shabbir Ahmed

M.Sc. Thesis Candidate
UAV Navigation Using UWB Measurements

Louis Lortie

M.Sc. Thesis Candidate
Koopman-based System Identification

Sepehr Moalemi

M.Sc. Thesis Candidate
Optimization as a Control Problem

Antoine Henri

M.Sc. Thesis Candidate
Stability and Control of Haptic Devices

Ashley Meagher

M.Sc. Thesis Candidate
Grid Simulation and Control

Jonathan Eid

M.Sc. Thesis Candidate
Grid Simulation and Control

Group Outings