Filip explored geometric methods for manipulator motion planning in collaboration with LAMoR (University of Zagreb). Now a Research Scientist at Samsung AI, Montreal.

Matthew worked on certifiably optimal estimation for safe robotic perception and planning. Now a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. David Rosen at NEURAL, Northeastern.

Brandon worked on improving visual and inertial navigation algorithms by applying deep learning. Now a Robotics Perception Engineer at Applanix in Toronto.

Andrej designed a new self-supervised semantic mapping framework for visual and lidar data. Now a Software Engineer at Oxbotica, Toronto.

Erin worked on lunar rover navigation planning software in cooperation with MDA. Now a Ph.D. student at CU Boulder in bioastronautics, working with Prof. Allison Anderson.

Ahmad worked on navigation planning over stochastic graphs. He obtained his Ph.D. from Waterloo. Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland.

Chris compared observability-aware trajectory optimization methods. Now a Sensor Fusion Engineer at Trimble Autonomous Solutions in Westminster, Colorado.

Abhinav worked on learning-based methods for tactile slip detection. Now an ML Engineer at Kindred AI in San Francisco.

Petra helped to build our GNN-based inverse kinematics solver. Now a B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.

Kelly was involved in the design and testing of a new uncertainty-aware stochastic path planning framework. Now a B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.

Justin investigated methods for increasing the robustness of visual motion estimation for high-speed robot platforms. Now a Software Engineer at Ribbit, Toronto.

Jason worked on visual docking algorithms for our autonomous tail-sitter aerial vehicle (the Phoenix Drone).

Soroush helped to devise several algorithms for certifiably optimal estimation. Now B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.

Hudson worked on rover autonomy software as part of the U of T Robotics for Space Exploration competition team.

Yuchen examined reinforcement learning in cooperation with Prof. Florian Shkurti at UTM. Now an M.A.Sc. student in Prof. Tim Barfoot’s group at UTIAS.

Valentin studied ways to improve visual localization through the use of deep learning. Now a Computational Research Scientist at Structura Biotechnology, Toronto.

Lee investigated how learning can be used to enable long-term visual navigation. Now a Software Engineer at Oxbotica, Toronto.

Shui Song visited us from NTU, Singapore, to work on semantic mapping for manipulation tasks. Now a Master’s student at NUS, Singapore.

Juraj worked on mm-wave radar as part of ongoing research for his Ph.D. in the LAMoR group at the University of Zagreb. Now a postdoc in LAMoR.

Brian developed extensions to our deep appearance modelling framework. Now a Software Engineer III at Google in Mountain View.

Richard worked on an advanced SLAM package for the RSX Rover Challenge Team at U of T. Now a Software engineer at Microsoft.

Ray developed tools to support visual navigation of our tail sitter aerial platform. Now a Software Engineer at Stripe in San Francisco.

Ziye applied convex optimization to robot mapping problems. Currently a Ph.D. student in EECS at Prof. Somayeh Sojoudi’s lab, UC Berkeley.

Tobias completed his Master’s at the STARS Lab on exchange from ETH Zürich, working on human-robot cooperative manipulation. Now a Project Manager at ASE in Zürich.

Jordan worked on spatiotemporal calibration algorithms for lidar-camera and lidar-IMU sensor pairs. Now a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA, Santa Clara.

David designed and built our Phoenix tail-sitter drone from scratch! Now a Ph.D. student in neuromorphic AI at TU Delft with Prof. Guido de Croon.

Thomas worked on various methods for airborne threat tracking. Now a Software Engineer in the New Zealand Defence Force.

Jenni worked on modifying our deep network for sun detection, Sun-BCNN. Now a Software Engineer at Nuro in San Francisco.

Luke worked on improving our suite of sensor calibration tools. Now a Master’s student in Electrical Engineering and IT at ETH Zürich.

Xinyi built navigation and mapping software for our self-driving wheelchair. Last at Zhejiang University.

Lingzhu’s research focused on visual navigation in dynamic environments. Last at Google in Toronto.

Jennifer developed software for our mobile manipulator. Currently a Ph.D. student in Prof. Pietro Perona’s group at Caltech, Pasadena.

Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Now an Advanced System Engineer, SATCOM, at Honeywell Aerospace in Ottawa (Kanata).

Now Satellite Operations Lead at Kepler Communications Inc., in Toronto.

Now a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Robotics, Toronto.

Jason worked on navigation software for our autonomous wheelchair platform. Last at Synapticon in Stuttgart, Germany.

Jacob developed automatic lidar-camera self-calibration software. Now a Self-Driving Car Engineer at Perception Engine, Nagoya, Japan.

Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Now a Senior Software Engineer at Faire (leading online wholesale marketplace tech) in Toronto.

Wei-Kang built a trajectory design tool for ROS. Now a Controls and Software Developer at General Motors in Toronto.

Now a Senior Software Engineer, Last Mile Technology at Amazon in Seattle, Washington.

Now at PheedLoop, a startup he co-founded during his undergraduate studies.

Alice worked on our autonomous wheelchair project. Now a Software Engineer at Waymo, Mountain View.

Charlie worked on our autonomous wheelchair project. Now a Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos.

Now a Ph.D. student with Prof. Paul Newman at the Oxford Robotics Institute, UK.

Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Now a Senior Engineer, Mission Systems, at MDA in Toronto (Brampton).