Robotics Institute Leadership
The Robotics Institute brings together established and emerging leaders in robotics who make significant contributions to the UofT Robotics Institute through through service, mentorship, thought leadership, and community development.
UofT faculty who wish to join as Active Members should contact the Institute: robotics@utoronto.ca.
Active Members (alphabetic)
Lueder Kahrs
Brokoslaw Laschowski
Goldie Nejat
Nicholas Rhinehart
Steering Committees
Executive Committee
Tim Barfoot
Amanda Hacio
Strategic Advisor
Raquel Urtasun
Outreach & EDI Committee
Eric Diller (Chair)
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Jonathan Kelly
Maria Yablonina
Seminar Committee
Igor Gilitschenski (Co-Chair)
Nick Rhinehart (Co-Chair)
Amanda Hacio
Education & Curriculum Committee
Tim Barfoot (Chair)
Florian Shkurti
Allied Centres
Alex Mihailidis - AGE-WELL
Hugh Liu - Centre for Aerial Robotics Research and Education (CARRE)
Timothy Chan - Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE)
Sheila McIlraith - Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society
Affiliated Members
Affiliated Members include a wide range of robotics researchers and research collaborators from across UofT whose work meaningfully intersects with the field of robotics, or who teach or co-supervise robotics graduate students.
UofT faculty who wish to join as Affiliated Members should contact the Institute: robotics@utoronto.ca.
Myrtede Alfred
Mireille Broucke
Sinisa Colic
Andrew Goldenberg
Daeho Kim
Manfredi Maggiore
Alex Mihailidis
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Sheila McIlraith
Milos Popovic
Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - KITE
Rosalie Wang
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