Office Address:
Centre for Intelligent Machines
3480 University Street, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2A7
Office location: Room 440, McConnell Eng. Bldg.
Telephone: (514) 398-5006, Fax: (514) 398-7348
Email: hayward 'at' cim 'dot' mcgill 'dot' ca
Bio: Vincent Hayward, Ing. Ecole Centrale de Nantes 1978; Ph.D. Computer Science 1981, University of Paris. Chargé de recherches at CNRS, France (1983-86). Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. Hayward is interested in haptic device design and applications, perception, and robotics. He is leading the Haptics Laboratory at McGill University and was the Director of the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines (2001-2004). Over 160 reviewed papers, 8 patents, 4 pending. Spin-off companies: Haptech (1996), now Immersion Canada Inc. (2000), RealContact (2002). Co-Founder Experimental Robotics Symposia, Program Vice-Chair 1998 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Program Vice-Chair ISR2000, past Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Governing board Haptics-e, Editorial board of the ACM Transaction on Applied Perception and of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics. Three times leader of national projects of IRIS, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Canada's Network of Centers of Excellence Program-NCE), and past member of the IRIS Research Management Board. Keynote Speaker, IFAC Symposium on Robot Control 2006. Keynote Speaker, Eurohaptics 2004, The E. (Ben) & Mary Hochhausen Award for Research in Adaptive Technology For Blind and Visually Impaired Persons (2002). Plenary Speaker, Workshop on Advances in Interactive Multimodal Telepresence Systems, Munich, Germany (2001) Keynote, IEEE ICMA , Osaka, Japan (2001), Distinguished Lecturer Series, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta (2000). Fellow of the IEEE (2008).
