Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Dr. Eleonora Botta, Enhancing the Capabilities of Space Situational Awareness, McGill University, September 2018 - December 2018

Current position: Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
  • Dr. Alex Walsh, Underwater Navigation, McGill University, May 2018 - May 2019

Current position: Engineering Staff, Opener, Palo Alto, CA

Doctoral Students

  • Ms. Leila Bridgeman, Methods Exploiting and Extending the Conic Sector Theorem, McGill University, January 2012 - October 2016

Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University.
  • Ms. Xiaowei Shan (co-supervised with Prof. Angeles), Design, Prototyping and Testing of Biaxial MEMS Accelerometers for Rigid-body Pose-and-twist Estimation, McGill University, September 2012 - May2017

Current position: Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, School of Mechanical-Electronic and Vehicle Engineering
  • Mr. Alex Walsh, Extremum-Seeking Guidance and Conic-Sector-Based Control of Aerospace Systems, University of Michigan, September 2013 - December 2017

Current position: Engineering Staff, Opener, Palo Alto, CA
  • Mr.Stephen Alexander Chee, Norm-Constrained State Estimation Strategies, McGill University, January 2013 - February 2018

Current position: MIssions Systems Engineering division at MDA Corporation, St. Hubert, QC.
  • Mr. Ryan James Caverly, Optimal Output Modification and Robust Control using Minimum Gain and the Large Gain Theorem, University of Michigan, January 2014 - March 2018

Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
  • Mr. David Evan Zlotnik, Lie Group Observer Design for Robotic Systems: Extensions, Synthesis, and Higher-Order Filtering, University of Michigan, January 2014 - August 2018

Current position: Software Engineer - Robot Motion and Controls at Zoox, San Francisco, CA
  • Mr. Daryoush Mirza Hekmati (co-supervised with Prof. Heath), Control of Air-flow in Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines, University of Manchester, January 2015 - December 2018

Current position: Dynamics and Control Engineer at Aviya Aerospace Systems, Montreal, QC
  • Ms. Qi Sun (co-supervised with Prof. Angeles), Design and Control of Parallel Robots for High-Frequency, Small-Amplitude Applications, McGill University, September 2016 - Present

Master of Engineering (Thesis) Students

  • Ms. Donya Mohammadshahi (co-supervised with Prof. Nahon), The Dynamics and Control of Cable-Actuated Systems, McGill University, September 2011 - June 2013

Current position: MAYA HTT, Montreal, QC.
  • Mr. Francois Hogan, Dynamic Modelling and Control of Martian Tumbleweed Rovers, McGill University, September 2013 - February 2016

Current position: Research Staff, Samsung AI, Montreal QC
  • Mr. Harsh Godbole, Dynamic Modelling and Control of Cable-Actuated Systems, McGill University, April 2016 - October 2017

Current position: Aerospace System Modelling and Applied System Control at CAE, Monreal, QC
  • Mr. Zuyu Yin (co-supervised with Prof. Angeles), Control of Fast Pick-and-Place Robots, McGill University, September 2016 - April 2018

Current position: Engineering Staff, CM Labs, Montreal, QC
  • Mr. Duowen Qian, Relative Feature Measurement Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Three Dimensions, McGill University, September 2016 - December 2018

Current position: Robotic Perception and SLAM Expert, ARA Robotics, Montreal, QC
  • Mr. Jonathan Arsenault, Practical Considerations and Extentions of the Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering Framework, McGill University, September 2017 - December 2019

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University, Montreal, QC
  • Ms. Robyn Fortune, Modern Control Approaches to Large-Scale Testing of Aerospace Structures, McGill University, January 2018 - December 2019


  • Mr. Mitchell Cohen, Wind-Field Mapping Using a Coupled State and Wind-Velocity Estimator for Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, McGill University, September 2018 - December 2020

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University, Montreal, QC
  • Ms. Amanda Bianco, Automating Force Clamps to Measure Muscle Mechanics in Tissue Culture, McGill University, September 2018 - December 2020

Current position: Medical student at McGill University, Montreal, QC
  • Mr. Kevin Bergamin, High-Performance Data-Driven Control of Physically-Based Human Characters, McGill University, September 2018 - December 2020

Current position: Graphics and Animation Specialist at Ubisoft, Montreal, QC
  • Mr. Marc-Antoine Lavoie, Map-Constrained Train Navigation with IMU Measurements, McGill University, January 2019 - December 2021

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  • Mr. Amro Al Baali, Combining DVL-INS and Laser-based Loop Closures in a Batch Estimation Framework for Underwater Positioning, McGill University, September 2019 - August 2021

Current position: Engineer at Avidbots Corp, Kitchener, ON

  • Mr. Kyungmin Jung, Sliding-Window-Based Tightly-Coupled LIDAR-Inerital-Visual Odometry and Mapping, McGill University, September 2019 - August 2021

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University, Montreal, QC
  • Ms. Natalia Pavlasek, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Magnetic Fields and Their Gradients, McGill University, January 2021 - August 2022

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Mr. Faraaz Ahmed, Guidance and Model Predictive Control of a Tandem-rotor Helicopter, McGill University, September 2020 - August 2022


  • Mr. Daniil Lisus, Dissecting Visual-Inertial SLAM: Errors, Landmarks, and Consistency, McGill University, September 2020 - August 2022

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

  • Mr. Vassili Korotkine, State Estimation on Matrix Lie Groups using Iterative Filters, McGill University, September 2020 - August 2022

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University, Montreal, QC