I am proud to announce that ARCO Lab’s Aliyah Jimoh, Kiran Singh, Hussein Saad, and Alaap Grandhi have all successfully defended their master’s theses. I am thankful for their hard work and couldn’t have asked for a better first set of graduate students to establish a positive and collaborative lab culture. We celebrated with a lovely meal at Wass Ethiopian in downtown Hamilton.
Aliyah has developed algorithms for Bayesian experimental design of sensing infrastructure (e.g., range beacons and visual fiducial markers) in GNSS-denied environments. Keep an eye out for this work (along with open source code and datasets) in a top robotics journal over the coming months!
Kiran investigated a novel formulation of multi-sensor hand-eye calibration for monocular cameras. His work revealed key factors for system identifiability and will form the backbone of novel certifiable and robust calibration algorithms.
Hussein has worked alongside HeART Lab to develop a fast and general framework for optimal design of electromagnetic actuation systems. Stay tuned for open source software and a paper!
Finally, Alaap has created a novel partially equivariant architecture for object detection in autonomous vehicles. Look out for this work in a top machine learning venue soon!
