Faculty
Postdoctoral Scholars
Niloofar Jahanshahi
MARS
Postdoctoral Scholar
Robotic safety, Control theory
Visiting Scholars
Risto Ojala
MARS
Visiting Scholar
Autonomous driving, Robotic perception, Computer vision
Graduate Students
Adrian Chang
ROSIE
PhD Student
Human movement modeling
Albin Soni
ROSIE
MSc Student
Human-robot interaction, Physiological signal processing
Bita Azari
ROSIE
PhD Student
Affective computing, Human-robot interaction, Cognitive science
Cameron Siu
MARS
MSc Student
Motion planning, Control theory
Chuxuan (Shay) Zhang
MARS · ROSIE
PhD Student
Social navigation, Reinforcement learning, Human-robot interaction
Declan Easton
MARS
MSc Student
Generative models
Morteza Badali
ROSIE
PhD Student
Robot-to-human handover, Robot grasping, Deep learning
Roozbeh Razavi
MARS
PhD Student
Reinforcement learning
Tristan Ellison
MARS
MSc Student
Visual navigation, 3D reconstruction
Yankai Li
MARS
PhD Student
Motion planning, Control theory
Zachary Syvenky
ROSIE
MSc Student
Affective computing, Human-robot interaction, Human behaviour detection, Robot-assisted therapy
Undergraduates and Research Assistants
Marcus Chan
MARS
Undergraduate Student
Hamilton–Jacobi reachability, Robotics
Santiago Sanchez Covarrubias
MARS
Undergraduate Student
Hamilton–Jacobi reachability, Robotics, Safe control
Thimira Wijepala
MARS
Undergraduate Student
Motion planning, Interpretable learning
Yurii Huba
MARS
Undergraduate Student
Hamilton–Jacobi reachability, AI robotics
Zoe Stanley
ROSIE
Undergraduate Student
Human-computer interaction, Affective computing
Alumni
2026
Amir Matianiu
(Undergraduate Student · CMPT 415)
Binary Xiao
(Undergraduate Student · CMPT 415)
Finnick Pham
(Undergraduate Student · CMPT 415)
Isaiah D. Hanna
(Undergraduate Student · CMPT 415)
Ketan Dhingra
(Undergraduate Student)
Kurtis Yang
(Undergraduate Student)
— MSc at Johns Hopkins University Minh Bui
(PhD Student)
— Postdoctoral Researcher, UBC Algorithms, Optimization and Control Lab
Payam J. Yazdian
(PhD Student)
— Postdoctoral Researcher, ROSIE Lab
Satvik Garg
(Undergraduate Student · USRA)
2025
Babanpreet Singh
(Undergraduate Student)
Bermet Burkanova
(MSc Student)
— Lecturer, Computer Science, University of Central Asia Dongwei Han
(Undergraduate Student) Ervin Samuel
(MSc Student) Jiin Kim
(Undergraduate Student)
Mohammad Mahdavian
(PhD Student)
— Huawei Pedram Agand
(PhD Student)
— Amazon
Sahar Leisiazar
(PhD Student)
— Huawei Yasaman Etesam
(PhD Student)
— Borealis AI
Zhitian Zhang
(PhD Student)
— RBC Borealis
2024
Ekansh Chawla
(Undergraduate Student)
Grayson Lee
(Undergraduate Student)
— MSc at University of Alberta
Jashanraj Gosain
(Undergraduate Student) Jessica Mann
(Undergraduate Student)
Tara Toufighi
(MSc Student)
Tyler D’Silva
(MPCS Student) Vera Yang
(Undergraduate Student)
— Software Development Engineer at Amazon Xubo Lyu
(PhD Student)
— Google Yimeng Fan
(MPCS Student) 2023
Abby Wang
(MPCS Student)
Baiyu Li
(MSc Student)
— Embedded Software Developer at Fortinet Dorsa Dadjoo
(MSc Student)
— S&P Global
Qiushi Lin
(MSc Student)
— PhD Student at Simon Fraser University Salar Asayesh
(PhD Student)
— Sanctuary AI
Sriraj Meenavilli
(MSc Student)
— NTWIST
2022
Atefeh Sahraee
(MSc Student)
— Ocado
Danoosh Chamani
(MSc Student)
— Data Scientist at Scotiabank Emma Hughson
(MSc Student)
— Senior Affective Computing Engineer at Cambridge Consulting
George Giovanis
(Undergraduate Student · USRA)
— Amazon
Nadia Hazar
(Undergraduate Student)
— Data Scientist at ZE PowerGroup
Payam Nikdel
(PhD Student)
— Waymo
Qinghong Xu
(MSc Student)
— Software Development Engineer at Amazon Roya Javadi
(MSc Student)
— Machine Learning Software Developer at Vector Institute
Taher Ahmadi
(MSc Student)
— Blue Boat Data
2021
Akihiro Matsufuji
(Visiting Student · Visiting Research Student)
— Research Engineer at Panasonic
Anastasia Akkuzu
(Undergraduate Student)
— PhD Candidate at Utrecht University Bronwyn Biro
(Undergraduate Student)
— Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP Ghazal Saheb Jam
(MSc Student)
— Software Developer at SAP
James Thompson
(Undergraduate Student)
— MSc Candidate at University of Alberta Jimin Rhim
(Postdoctoral Scholar)
— Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M
Saba Akhyani
(MSc Student)
— User Researcher at NetEase Games
Xinyi Zhong
(MSc Student)
— Software Development Engineer at Amazon Ziyuan Ma
(Undergraduate Student) 2020
Jialiang Chen
(Undergraduate Student · USRA)
Xiaoye Zheng
(Undergraduate Student · USRA)
2019
Anjian Li
(MSc Student)
— PhD Student, Princeton University
Kefan Yang
(Undergraduate Student)
— Google
2018
Kathleen Moriarty
(Undergraduate Student)
— PhD Candidate at SFU Medical Image Analysis Lab Year not specified
Aadil Akhtar
(Undergraduate Student)
Andy Tang
(Undergraduate Student)
Anthony Cheung
(Undergraduate Student)
— Software Engineer at Sanctuary AI
David Pham
(Undergraduate Student)
— Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services Erfan Shafagh
(Undergraduate Student)
Francis Li
(Undergraduate Student)
Gursahib Singh Badwal
(Undergraduate Student)
Joe Zhang
(Undergraduate Student · USRA)
— MSc at Carnegie Mellon University; PhD at Stanford University
Juan C. Leon
(MSc Student)
— Teck
Jun Yang
(Undergraduate Student · USRA)
Khizr A. Pardhan
(Undergraduate Student) Lauren Yip
(Undergraduate Student)
Michael Chang
(Undergraduate Student)
Sasha Yao
(Undergraduate Student)
— Software Engineer at Realtor.com
Subin Bae
(Undergraduate Student)
— Software Developer at Weir Motion Metrics
Sviatoslav Rublov
(Undergraduate Student)
Victoria Zhou
(Undergraduate Student)
Xinyu Zhao
(MSc Student)
Yunlong Li
(Undergraduate Student · USRA)
