Short Bio
Adeel Akhtar received a B.E. degree in mechatronics from the National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. He received his MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, in the area of controls and mobile robotics under the supervision of Prof. Steve Waslander.
In Fall 2018, he taught Autonomous Mobile Robotics (MTE-544), as a sessional, at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2019 and 2020, he was a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed at the department of Mathematics at Queens Univerisity, Canada, where he was fortunate to be supervised by Professor Andrew Lewis. After that, he held a short Post-Doctoral position at York University, Canada. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Hybrid Systems Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. His research interests include nonlinear controls, set stabilization, geometric controls, and hybrid systems, with applications in mobile robotics.
Personal website: https://adeelakhtar.com/