Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

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

Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Dr. Alex Walsh, Underwater Navigation, McGill University, May 2018 - May 2019

Current position: Control Systems Engineer, Opener, Palo Alto, CA

Dr. Thomas Hitchcox, Underwater Navigation, McGill University, September 2023 - June 2024

Current position: Research Scientist, Sonardyne, Yateley, United Kingdom

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 & Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC

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, School of Mechanical-Electronic and Vehicle Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Mr. Alex Walsh, Extremum-Seeking Guidance and Conic-Sector-Based Control of Aerospace Systems, University of Michigan, September 2013 - December 2017

Current position: Control Systems Engineer, 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, 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, Minneapolis, MN

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, 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, Aviya Aerospace Systems, Montreal, QC

Ms. Qi Sun (co-supervised with Prof. Angeles), Cartesian Elastodynamics Modelling of Parallel-kinematics Machines Under High-frequency, Small-amplitude Manoeuvres, McGill University, September 2016 - August 2023
Mr. Charles Cossette, On-manifold Estimation Methods for Multi-robot Relative Localization using Ultra-wideband Radio, McGill University, January 2019 - August 2023

Current position: Software Engineer - Motion Planning & Collision Avoidance, Zoox, San Francisco, CA

Mr. Thomas Hitchcox, Strategies for Subsea Navigation and Mapping Using an Underwater Laser Scanner, McGill University, January 2019 - August 2023

Current position: Research Scientist, Sonardyne, Yateley, United Kingdom

Mr. Jonathan Arsenault, Quantitative Analysis of Hockey Using Spatiotemporal Tracking Data, McGill University, January 2020 - December 2023

Current position: Data Scientist, Carolina Hurricanes, Raleigh, NC

Mr. Mohammed Shalaby, Ultra-wideband for Robot Navigation: Calibration, Communication, and State Estimation, McGill University, September 2019 - December 2023

Current position: Robotics Engineer, Provectus Robotics, Ottawa, ON

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: Mechanical Engineering Specialist, MAYA HTT, Montreal, QC.

Mr. Francois Hogan, Dynamic Modelling and Control of Martian Tumbleweed Rovers, McGill University, September 2013 - February 2016

Current position: AI Researcher, Samsung AI, Montreal, QC

Mr. Harsh Godbole, Dynamic Modelling and Control of Cable-Actuated Systems, McGill University, April 2016 - October 2017

Current position: Software Developer - Simulator Virtualiztion, 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: Hardware Simulation Developer, General Motors, Markham, ON

Mr. Duowen Qian, Relative Feature Measurement Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Three Dimensions, McGill University, September 2016 - December 2018

Current position: Program Manager - Recon RPAS Program, 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: Data Scientist, Carolina Hurricanes, Raleigh, NC

Ms. Robyn Fortune, Modern Control Approaches to Large-Scale Testing of Aerospace Structures, McGill University, January 2018 - December 2019

Current position: Mechanical Simulation Specialist, CM Labs Simulations, Montreal, QC

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, 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, 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: Machine Learning / Controls Engineer, Boston Dynamics, Waltham, MA

Mr. Marc-Antoine Lavoie, Map-Constrained Train Navigation with IMU Measurements, McGill University, January 2019 - December 2021

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate, 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: Software Engineer - Localization and Mapping, Pickle Robot Company, Cambridge, MA

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, 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, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Mr. Faraaz Ahmed, Guidance and Model Predictive Control of a Tandem-rotor Helicopter, McGill University, September 2020 - August 2022

Current position: Quantitative Analyst - Financial Engineering & Modelling, Deloitte, Toronto, ON

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

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

Mr. Arturo Del Castillo, Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation, McGill University, September 2021 - August 2023

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

Ms. Harriet Violet Chorney, Dynamic Analysis of Spine Mechanics, McGill University, September 2021 - August 2023

Current position: Autonomy Developer - Navigation, OTTO Motors, Kitchener, ON

Mr. Philippe Decoste, Homography Estimation using Direct Thermographic Information, McGill University, September 2021 - August 2024

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Mr. Louis Lortie, Forward-Backward ExtendedDMD with an Asymptotic Stability Constraint, McGill University, September 2022 - August 2024

Current position: Professional Starcraft2 Player

Mr. Syed Shabbir Ahmed, Range-aided Relative Pose Estimation and Formation Planning for Multi-robot Systems, McGill University, September 2022 - August 2024

Current position: GNSS Algorithm Designer, Novatel Inc. - Hexagon Autonomy and Positioning, Calgary, AB

Mr. Antoine Henri, Hybrid Haptic Device Modelling and System, McGill University, September 2022 - August 2024

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