{"id":396,"date":"2026-05-04T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/?p=396"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:20:10","slug":"congratulations-to-arco-labs-inaugural-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to ARCO Lab’s Inaugural Graduates!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}