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Associate Professor
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Institute for Aerospace Studies
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- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Institute for Aerospace Studies
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- University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies, 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3H 5T6, Canada
BIO
Prof. Kelly is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies and the Director of the Space & Terrestrial Autonomous Robotic Systems (STARS) Laboratory. Before joining the University of Toronto, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Robust Robotics Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Nick Roy. He completed his Ph.D. in the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory at the University of Southern California, under the supervision of Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme. Prior to graduate school, he was a Software Engineer in the Space Technologies division of the Canadian Space Agency.
The work in Kelly’s group is motivated by the desire to implement effective autonomy solutions across a broad spectrum of application domains. Specifically, the group seeks to build robots that are: pervasive — widely deployed in assistive roles across the spectrum of human activity, persistent — able to operate reliably and independently for long durations, on the order of days, weeks, or more, and perceptive — aware of their environment, and capable of acting intelligently when confronted with new situations and experiences.
Towards these goals, Kelly’s group designs algorithms for an array of sensing devices and robotic platforms. Examples of current research topics include: power-on-and-go sensor systems, energy-aware path planning for planetary rovers, and deep learning methods for reliable navigation under challenging conditions (e.g., extreme lighting and appearance change). The group has recently launched a major initiative in the area of collaborative mobile manipulation.
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The work in Kelly’s group is motivated by the desire to implement effective autonomy solutions across a broad spectrum of application domains. Specifically, the group seeks to build robots that are: pervasive — widely deployed in assistive roles across the spectrum of human activity, persistent — able to operate reliably and independently for long durations, on the order of days, weeks, or more, and perceptive — aware of their environment, and capable of acting intelligently when confronted with new situations and experiences.
Towards these goals, Kelly’s group designs algorithms for an array of sensing devices and robotic platforms. Examples of current research topics include: power-on-and-go sensor systems, energy-aware path planning for planetary rovers, and deep learning methods for reliable navigation under challenging conditions (e.g., extreme lighting and appearance change). The group has recently launched a major initiative in the area of collaborative mobile manipulation.
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2020 - present
- Affiliate Faculty MemberUniversity of Toronto, Electric Vehicle Research Center, Toronto, Canada1 Aug 2017 - present
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 May 2013 - 1 Jun 2020
- Affiliate Faculty MemberVector Institute, Toronto, Canada1 Jun 2018 - present
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Canada Research Chair (Tier II)University of Toronto, Collaborative Robotics, Toronto, Canada1 Apr 2019 - present
- Associate DirectorUniversity of Toronto, Center for Areal Robotics Research and Education (CARRE), Toronto, Canada1 Aug 2015 - present
- Dean's Catalyst ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2018 - 1 Jun 2021
- DirectorSTARS Laboratory, Canada1 Jun 2013 - present
- Lab ScientistCreative Destruction Lab, Canada1 Aug 2018 - present
- Visiting Research ScientistNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, United States1 Jun 2021 - 1 Dec 2021
- Visiting Associate ProfessorStanford University, Stanford, United States1 Jan 2021 - 1 Jun 2021
DEGREES
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (Robotics)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States2010
- M.Sc. in Computing Science (Robotics)University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada2008
- M.S., Computer ScienceUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States2005
- B.Sc., Computer EngineeringUniversity of Alberta, Canada
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Postdoctoral AssociateMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States21 Aug 2011 - 15 May 2013Postdoctoral Fellowship
AVAILABILITY
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INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
- Robotics Institute
- Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI)