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Brighton, Colorado, États-Unis

Sunnyvale, California

• Co-developed a new AV feature that ensures safety through proactive and reactive maneuvers and safely deployed it on 3 different AV platforms and spoke about that work at the AutoSens Brussels 2019 conference. (ROS, C++)
• Optimized one of the internal speed planning algorithms to account for multiple constraints while limiting the number of unnecessary accelerations and decelerations. (ROS, C++)
• Developed a Level 2 warning system in less than 3 months that calculated the risk and time to collision with hazards using only one camera and the vehicle CAN information. (C++)
• Created in less than 3 weeks a quick simulation tool to circumvent the limits of our vendors and allow the team to meet a tight deadline. (Qt, C++)
• Implemented all vehicle CAN communication on the new Leaf ’19 AV platform. (C++, CANalyzer)
• Obtained an Autonomous Vehicle Safety Driver License.

Sunnyvale, California

• Migrated the simulation environment from ROS to RTMaps in order to integrate and test an internal 15 DoF vehicle model. (ROS, Simulink, QML, Java, C++, RTMaps)
• Leveraged the improved simulation to improve the control algorithm of the AV stack on the Renault Zoe. (C++)

Belgium

• Coached high school and college students in Sciences and Mathematics.

Louvain-La-Neuve

• Collaborated with 4 engineers to analyze the data from Carmeuse’s kilns and create a new tool that helped operators run the kilns, optimize the quality of the lime, minimize the heat input per cycle and prevent.

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

• Thesis on “Optimal Control of a humanoid robot: Finding a closed-loop method for a highly non-linear system”. (MATLAB, Robotran)

Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

• Followed an Advanced Robot Control Systems class that was not available at UCL.

Exchange Student, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering