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Dr. Jonathan Kelly
Professor
Prof. Kelly is the Director of the STARS Laboratory; his research is focused on understanding how robots can successfully interact with the world, by building internal models of state and deriving sufficient statistics.
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Trevor Ablett
Ph.D. Student
Trevor is working on learning-based modelling techniques for mobile manipulator task execution in collaborative environments.
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Oliver Limoyo
Ph.D. Student
Oliver is working on enabling mobile manipulators to learn how to interact with unstructured and dynamic environments.
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Emmett Wise
Ph.D. Student
Emmett is working on sensing and localization methods for mobile vehicles using radar.
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Olivier Lamarre
Ph.D. Student
Olivier is working on adaptive long-range navigation planning with planetary rovers in collaboration with NASA JPL.
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Adam Hall
Ph.D. Student
Adam is working on interactive perception algorithms for mobile manipulators in collaboration with the Dynamic Systems Laboratory at UTIAS.
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Philippe Nadeau
Ph.D. Student
Philippe is studying how robot-environment interactions can be leveraged to improve manipulation models.
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Jinbang Huang
Ph.D. Student
Jinbang is working on hybrid neurosymbolic task and motion planning algorithms in collaboration with the RVL Lab, U of T CS.
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Katie Allison
M.A.Sc. Student
Katie is designing a new ‘smart surface’ gripper design in collaboration with Prof. Ben Hatton in MSE.
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Selina Leveugle
M.A.Sc. Student
Selina is exploring visual anomaly detection for on-orbit operations of robotic manipulators.
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Mia Thomas
M.A.Sc. Student
Mia is studying methods for visual-inertial and thermal-inertial navigation for day/night autonomous flight.
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Sampanna Bhattarai
M.A.Sc. Student
Sampanna is working on visual tracking from aerostat vehicles in collaboration with Solar Ship Inc.
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Edwin Ng
M.A.Sc. Student
Edwin is exploring deep learning methods for semantic mapping in indoor environments.
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Dr. Filip Marić
Ph.D. Student (2023)
Filip explored geometric methods for manipulator motion planning in collaboration with LAMoR (University of Zagreb). Now a Research Scientist at Samsung AI, Montreal.
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Dr. Matthew Giamou
Ph.D. Student (2022)
Matthew worked on certifiably optimal estimation for safe robotic perception and planning. Now a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. David Rosen at NEURAL, Northeastern.
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Dr. Brandon Wagstaff
Ph.D. Student (2022)
Brandon worked on improving visual and inertial navigation algorithms by applying deep learning. Now a Robotics Perception Engineer at Applanix in Toronto.
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Andrej Janda
Master's Student (2022)
Andrej designed a new self-supervised semantic mapping framework for visual and lidar data. Now a Software Engineer at Oxbotica, Toronto.
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Erin Richardson
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2022)
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.
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Dr. Ahmad Bilal Asghar
Postdoctoral Fellow (2021)
Ahmad worked on navigation planning over stochastic graphs. He obtained his Ph.D. from Waterloo. Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland.
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Chris Grebe
Master's Student (2021)
Chris compared observability-aware trajectory optimization methods. Now a Sensor Fusion Engineer at Trimble Autonomous Solutions in Westminster, Colorado.
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Abhinav Grover
Master's Student (2021)
Abhinav worked on learning-based methods for tactile slip detection. Now an ML Engineer at Kindred AI in San Francisco.
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Petra Alexson
Undergraduate Research Student (2021)
Petra helped to build our GNN-based inverse kinematics solver. Now a B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.
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Kelly Zhu
Undergraduate Research Student (2021)
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.
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Justin Tomasi
Master's Student (2020)
Justin investigated methods for increasing the robustness of visual motion estimation for high-speed robot platforms. Now a Software Engineer at Ribbit, Toronto.
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Jason Wang
Undergraduate Research Student (2020)
Jason worked on visual docking algorithms for our autonomous tail-sitter aerial vehicle (the Phoenix Drone).
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Soroush Khoubyarian
Undergraduate Research Student (2020)
Soroush helped to devise several algorithms for certifiably optimal estimation. Now B.A.Sc. student in Engineering Science at U of T.
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Hudson Schier
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2020)
Hudson worked on rover autonomy software as part of the U of T Robotics for Space Exploration competition team.
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Yuchen Wu
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2020)
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.
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Dr. Valentin Peretroukhin
Ph.D. Student (2020)
Valentin studied ways to improve visual localization through the use of deep learning. Now a Computational Research Scientist at Structura Biotechnology, Toronto.
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Dr. Lee Clement
Ph.D. Student (2020)
Lee investigated how learning can be used to enable long-term visual navigation. Now a Software Engineer at Oxbotica, Toronto.
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Shui Song Luar
Undergraduate Exchange Student (2019)
Shui Song visited us from NTU, Singapore, to work on semantic mapping for manipulation tasks. Now a Master’s student at NUS, Singapore.
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Juraj Peršić
Visiting Doctoral Student (2019)
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.
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Brian Aly
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2019)
Brian developed extensions to our deep appearance modelling framework. Now a Software Engineer III at Google in Mountain View.
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Richard Seo
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2019)
Richard worked on an advanced SLAM package for the RSX Rover Challenge Team at U of T. Now a Software engineer at Microsoft.
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Ray Qureshi
Undergraduate Research Student (2019)
Ray developed tools to support visual navigation of our tail sitter aerial platform. Now a Software Engineer at Stripe in San Francisco.
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Ziye (Gaven) Ma
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2019)
Ziye applied convex optimization to robot mapping problems. Currently a Ph.D. student in EECS at Prof. Somayeh Sojoudi’s lab, UC Berkeley.
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Tobias Ulrich
Master's Exchange Student (2018)
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.
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Jordan Marr
Master's Student (2018)
Jordan worked on spatiotemporal calibration algorithms for lidar-camera and lidar-IMU sensor pairs. Now a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA, Santa Clara.
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David (Yilun) Wu
Undergraduate Research Student (2018)
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.
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Thomas Kingsford
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2018)
Thomas worked on various methods for airborne threat tracking. Now a Software Engineer in the New Zealand Defence Force.
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Jenni Lam
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2018)
Jenni worked on modifying our deep network for sun detection, Sun-BCNN. Now a Software Engineer at Nuro in San Francisco.
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Luke Volpatti
Undergraduate Research Student (2017)
Luke worked on improving our suite of sensor calibration tools. Now a Master’s student in Electrical Engineering and IT at ETH Zürich.
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Xinyi Li
Mitacs Globalink Student (2017)
Xinyi built navigation and mapping software for our self-driving wheelchair. Last at Zhejiang University.
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Lingzhu Xiang
Ph.D. Student (2017)
Lingzhu’s research focused on visual navigation in dynamic environments. Last at Google in Toronto.
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Jennifer Sun
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2017)
Jennifer developed software for our mobile manipulator. Currently a Ph.D. student in Prof. Pietro Perona’s group at Caltech, Pasadena.
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Ningwen Xu
Master's Exchange Student (2017)
Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Willie Hsieh
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2017)
Now an Advanced System Engineer, SATCOM, at Honeywell Aerospace in Ottawa (Kanata).
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Christine (Ji Eun) Lee
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2017)
Now Satellite Operations Lead at Kepler Communications Inc., in Toronto.
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Johnny (Ze Yang) Wang
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2017)
Now a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Robotics, Toronto.
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Jason Yang
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2017)
Jason worked on navigation software for our autonomous wheelchair platform. Last at Synapticon in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Jacob Lambert
Master's Student (2017)
Jacob developed automatic lidar-camera self-calibration software. Now a Self-Driving Car Engineer at Perception Engine, Nagoya, Japan.
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Yuan Liang
Master's Exchange Student (2016)
Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Farid Akhoundov
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2016)
Now a Senior Software Engineer at Faire (leading online wholesale marketplace tech) in Toronto.
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Wei-Kang Tseng
Undergraduate Research Student (2016)
Wei-Kang built a trajectory design tool for ROS. Now a Controls and Software Developer at General Motors in Toronto.
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Julian Coelho
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2016)
Now a Senior Software Engineer, Last Mile Technology at Amazon in Seattle, Washington.
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Rahul Goel
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2016)
Now at PheedLoop, a startup he co-founded during his undergraduate studies.
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Alice Gong
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2016)
Alice worked on our autonomous wheelchair project. Now a Software Engineer at Waymo, Mountain View.
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Charlie Guan
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2016)
Charlie worked on our autonomous wheelchair project. Now a Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos.
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Tim Tang
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2016)
Now a Ph.D. student with Prof. Paul Newman at the Oxford Robotics Institute, UK.
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Fei Yu
Master's Exchange Student (2015)
Last at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Faizan Rehmatullah
Undergraduate Thesis Student (2015)
Now a Senior Engineer, Mission Systems, at MDA in Toronto (Brampton).