Haptics Laboratory: People
(updated: Winter 2011).

• Vincent Hayward - Professor (Electr. and Computer Eng.), Group Leader

Former students and visitors

• Hsin Yun Yao - Ph.D. Student (2004-2010). Dr. Yao is now President of Tactile Labs Inc.

• Vincent Levesque - Ph.D. Student (2005-09). Dr. Levesque became a Post Doctoral Fellow at the SPIN Lab of the University of British Columbia.

• Gianni Campion - Ph.D. Student (04-09). Dr. Campion became postdoctoral fellow with the Robotics, Dynamics and Control research group at Boston University. He then moved to CAE Electronics Inc (Healthcare).

• Andrew H. Gosline - Ph.D. Student (04-09). Dr. Gosline became postdoctoral fellow with the Neuromuscular Control Lab at McGill (formely at SFU), then at Immersion Canada Inc. He is with the Robotics, Dynamics and Control research group at Boston University

• Mounia Ziat Post-Doctoral Fellow (2007-2008). Dr. Ziat moved to the Laurier Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada.

• Jerome Pasquero - Ph.D. Student (04-08). Scientist, Research in Motion .

• Hanifa Dostmohamed - M.Eng. Student (02-05). Ms. Dostmohamed has now joined medical school.

• Qi Wang - Ph.D. Student (02-07). Research Scientist at Garrett B. Stanley's Neural Coding Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.

• Gaurav Sood - M.Eng. Student (04-06).

• Yan Zhao - Honours Thesis Student (05-06). Ms. Yao has joined the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University as a graduate student.

• Omar Ayoub - M.Eng. Student (02-05). Mr. Ayoub has joined MicroSoft .

• Diana Garroway - M.Eng (02-04). Ms. Garroway is now working with SoftImage in Montreal.

• Seigo Harashima - Visitor from Industry from 2001 to 2004. Has now returned to Ricoh Company , Yokhama, Japan.

• Ian Sinclair - Visitor from Industry Fall 2002 and Winter 2003. Has now returned to MPB Technologies Inc.

• Juli Yamashita From the Skill Research Group , AIST, Japan - Spent 3 weeks with us in the fall 2002.

• Aline Bompas from the Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale , Paris - Spent 3 months with us in the fall 2002. She is now with the MPI for Biological Cybernetics

• Dingrong Yi - Ph.D. (98-02). Was research scientist at the Sunnybrook and Womens College Health Science Center in Toronto. She is teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong .

• Mohsen Mahvash - Ph.D. (99-02) Entrepreneur; founded a company called RealContact Inc. He is currently Post Doctoral Fellow at the John Hopkins University Haptic Exploration Lab .

• Timothee Doutriaux - Honours Thesis Student. (01). Was graduate student at the MIT Bizzi Lab then with the INRIA In Situ project and is now somewhere in New York City (I think).

• Erick Dupuis - Ph.D. (01) co-supervised with Prof. E. Papadopoulos (Nat. Univ. Athens, Greece) is (and was) with the Canadian Space Agency .

• Daniel Sidobre - was in sabbatical leave from LAAS , Toulouse, France. (00-01).

• Gabriel Robles De La Torre - Post Doctoral Fellow (99-01). He is the founder of the International Society for Haptics.

• Eric Teodori - Honors Thesis (00). Lost track.

• Danny Grant - M.Eng. (94) - Ph.D. (99). He is now V.P. Research Immersion Corp. . He is based in Montreal, Canada.

• Oliver Astley - M.Eng. (96) - Ph.D. (00). He is now with GE Global Labs , NY.

• Manuel Cruz-Hernandez - M.Eng. (95) - Ph.D. (98) - PostDoc (99). He his now research scientist with Immersion Corp. and is based in Montreal.

• Wang Qingyuan - M.Eng. (99). Ms. Wang is now with Motorola Canada , in Montreal.

• Stephanie Greenish - M.Eng. (98). Ms. Greenish is now with Matrox , Montreal.

• Christine Desmarais - Honors Thesis (97). She went on as Rhodes Scholar , Rhodes Scholar to Oxford, then was with CAE Electronics , Montreal Canada, and is now with Prof. A. M Smith of the Departement de Physiologie Universite de Montreal.

• Ming Hua Lim - Honours Thesis (97).

• Farrokh J. Sharifi - Post-Doc ((97-(98). He now is teaching at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering , Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto.

• Julie Payette - Ph.D. Student (95-On leave). She is now the Chief Astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency and participated in Mission STS-96.

• Pedro Gregorio - Research engineer (95-97). He his now with Immersion Corp. and is based in Montreal.

• Jason Chen - Undergraduate research assistant (97). He is now working in Ottawa (creating a start up I think).

• Luc Joly - Post-doc (97-98) from the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France. He is now with Staubli Robotics France.

• Eric De Silva - Undergraduate reserarch assistant (95-96). Was with Dassault Systems Paris for awhile. Last seen in Montreal.

• Bertrand Duplat - Visitor from Electricite de France (92-94). He founded Virtools in Paris.

• Fabienne Reynier - Post-doc (91-92) from Ecole Centrale de Nantes.

• Chaffye Nemri - Research engineer (91-93). He was a V.P. with Discreet Logic , Montreal. Lost track of him.

• Ducan Baird - Research Engineer (93-95). He was with Hymark Inc., Ottawa.

• Xuemei 'Alexandra' Lu - M. Eng. (97). She was with Nortel Canada.

• Alain Ouellet - M. Eng. (96). He was with the Canadian Space Agency .

• Pham Tam Loc - M. Eng. (97). He was with Memotech Canada.

• Jimmy Wang - M. Eng. (95).

• Andre Foisy - Ph.D. (94). He is with SoftImage in Montreal.

• John Lloyd - Ph.D. (94). He is currently with the Dept. of of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia.

• Michel Doyon - M.Eng. (94). He is with the Canadian Space Agency .

• Mehron Vaezi - M.Eng. (94). He is now with Wave Imaging , CA.

• Stephane Aubry - Ph.D. (94). Dr. Aubry is with Algorithmics Inc. in Toronto.

• Xianze Chen - M.Eng. (93). Lost track.

• Francois Mougenet - Honours Thesis (92). Lost track.

• Benoit Boulet - M.Eng. (93). He is with the Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill.

• Anthony Topper - M.Eng. (91). Lost track.

• Ronald Kurtz - M.Eng. (90). Lost track.

• Louis-Philippe Demers - PhD. (not completed 88). Last seen as Professor at the University of Singapore .

• Pierre Girouard - M.Eng. (87). Lost track.

• Jean Michel Ares - M.Eng (87). Lost track.

• Ajit Nilakantan - M.Eng. (87). He he co-founded Cimmetry Systems Inc. in Montreal which is now part of Agile Software Corp.