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Career

· Visiting Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)2025–2026
· Co-director of AI & Automation Lab, Acceleration Consortium2023–
· Assistant Professor, University of Toronto2019–
· Faculty Member, University of Toronto Robotics Institute2019–
· Faculty Member, Vector Institute2019–2025
· Scientific Advisory Board, Propagator Ventures2018–2020
· Robotics Consultant, Independent Robotics Inc.2016–2017
· Co-Inventor of a hardware and software 3D mapping system, Independent2015–2016
· Software Engineering Consultant, Lemay-Yates Associates Inc2015–
· Ph.D. in Computer Science & Robotics, McGill University2012–2019
· M.Sc. in Computer Science & Robotics, McGill University2009–2011
· Undergraduate Software Engineer, University of Toronto2009–
· Intern, Google Inc.2008–
· Research Assistant, A.U.G. Signals2006–
· H. B.Sc. in Computer Science & Mathematics, University of Toronto2005–2009

Publications (52)

Multi-domain monitoring of marine environments using a heterogeneous robot team
2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2012
152
cited
Generating Adversarial Driving Scenarios in High-Fidelity Simulators
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2019
143
cited
Underwater multi-robot convoying using visual tracking by detection
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2017
67
cited
Vision-Based Goal-Conditioned Policies for Underwater Navigation in the Presence of Obstacles
Robotics: Science and Systems · 2020
57
cited
State estimation of an underwater robot using visual and inertial information
2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2011
46
cited
Benchmark Environments for Multitask Learning in Continuous Domains
arXiv.org · 2017
42
cited
Feature Tracking Evaluation for Pose Estimation in Underwater Environments
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision · 2011
37
cited
MARE: Marine Autonomous Robotic Explorer
2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2011
31
cited
3D trajectory synthesis and control for a legged swimming robot
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2014
27
cited
Shaping Rewards for Reinforcement Learning with Imperfect Demonstrations using Generative Models
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2020
25
cited
Socially-Driven Collective Path Planning for Robot Missions
2012 Ninth Conference on Computer and Robot Vision · 2012
17
cited
Synthetically Trained 3D Visual Tracker of Underwater Vehicles
OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston · 2018
17
cited
Asymmetric Rendezvous Search at Sea
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision · 2014
15
cited
Ear-based exploration on hybrid metric/topological maps
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2014
15
cited
Making Sense of the Robotized Pandemic Response: A Comparison of Global and Canadian Robot Deployments and Success Factors
arXiv.org · 2020
15
cited
One-Shot Informed Robotic Visual Search in the Wild
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2020
13
cited
Texture-Aware SLAM Using Stereo Imagery and Inertial Information
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision · 2016
12
cited
Model-Based Probabilistic Pursuit via Inverse Reinforcement Learning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2018
11
cited
Topologically distinct trajectory predictions for probabilistic pursuit
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2017
8
cited
On the complexity of searching for an evader with a faster pursuer
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2013
6
cited
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