Trevor developed ways to improve the robustness and sample efficiency of reinforcement learning for manipulation. Now a Staff Research Scientist at Boston Dynamics.

Mia explored methods for visual-inertial and thermal-inertial navigation for day/night autonomous flight.

Katie studied the design of active (‘friction-tunable’) gripping surfaces for robotic manipulation in collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Hatton in MSE.

Dr. Sumi visited us from Nissan to work on integrated visual-inertial pose tracking under challenging conditions. He received his Ph.D. from the Nagoya Institute of Technology.

Emmett devised a series of calibration methods for 3D and 2D mm-wavelength and ground-penetrating radar sensors. Now a Senior Research Scientist at Waabi in Toronto.

Ivan’s research interests lie at the intersection of vision and robotics. He visited us as part of an ongoing collaboration with the LAMoR group at the University of Zagreb.

Oliver studied how self-supervised learning and generative modelling can be used for robotic manipulation tasks. Now a Senior Research Scientist at Waabi in Toronto.

Gabriel joined our group as a summer student and contributed to a project on manipulator calibration. Currently an undergraduate student at USFQ, Ecuador.

Selina explored visual anomaly detection for on-orbit operations of robotic manipulators and helped to build our ALLO Dataset. Now an Engineer at Pratt & Whitney in Toronto.

Jinbang worked on neurosymbolic task and motion planning in collaboration with Prof. Florian Shkurti, U of T CS. Now a Researcher at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in Toronto.

Joey designed and built a software framework for augmented reality-based teleoperation of robotic manipulators. Now a B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.

Rozilyn worked with our Franka manipulators as part of a project on neurosymbolic task and motion planning. Now a B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.

Jayanti evaluated various reinforcement learning algorithms for mobile manipulation.

Edwin explored deep learning methods for efficient semantic mapping of large-scale indoor environments. Now a Machine Learning Engineer at RBC Borealis in Toronto.

Bhakti worked with Dr. Norikatsu Sumi on visual-inertial pose tracking. Now a B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.

Nicole designed traffic light detection software as a member of aUToronto. Now a Software Developer at IBM in Toronto.

Cathy implemented OOD detection software for manipulation learning. Now an M.A.Sc. student at UTIAS.

Jayce worked on new adversarial imitation learning algorihms for various robotic manipulation tasks.

Sean developed traffic light tracking software as a member of aUToronto. Now an M.Sc. student in EEIT at ETH Zürich.

Filip explored geometric methods for manipulator motion planning in collaboration with LAMoR (University of Zagreb). Now a Research Scientist at Meta in San Francisco.

Adam worked on various algorithms for our mobile manipulator platform. Now a Ph.D. student in the Dynamic Systems Lab at UTIAS.

Matthew worked on certifiably optimal estimation for safe robotic perception and planning. Now an Assistant Professor at McMaster University and Director of the ARCO Lab.

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

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

Qilong worked on projects related to mm-wavelength radar calibration and motion estimation. He’s continued to collaborate with us on other projects as well!

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 Senior Software Engineer at Trimble Agriculture in Denver, Colorado.

Abhinav worked on learning-based methods for tactile slip detection. Now a Senior ML Engineer at Ocado in San Francisco.

Daniel developed manipulation software for our mobile platform. Now an M.Sc. student at ETH Zürich.

Petra helped to build our GNN-based inverse kinematics solver. Last 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 an M.Sc. student in Computer 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 an M.Sc. student in Physics at the University of Waterloo.

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 a Software Engineer at Nuro in Toronto.

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 Staff Engineer and Tech Lead Manager (Planning ML) at Oxa in Toronto.

Shui Song visited us from NTU, Singapore, to work on semantic mapping for manipulation tasks. Last 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 CEO at Calirad in Zagreb, Croatia.

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. Now an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong.

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, California.

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, California.

Luke worked on improving our suite of sensor calibration tools. Now a Quantitative Researcher at Citadel in Chicago, Illinois.

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. Now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell, Ithaca, New York.

Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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

Now Mission Operations Architect 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 camera-lidar calibration software. Now an Autonomous Driving Perception Specialist at Map IV, 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 Principal Software Engineer, Last Mile Technology at Amazon in Seattle, Washington.

Now CEO at NordSpace and at PheedLoop, his own startup companies in Toronto!

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

Charlie worked on our autonomous wheelchair project. Now a Software Engineer at Oxa in Toronto.

Now a Senior Software Engineer at Stack AV in Pittsburgh, USA.

Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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