Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Machine Learning

Neural networks and deep learning

Aerial Robotics

• Go from room to room and talk to patients • Orient newcomers to emergencies at welcome zone and guide them

Volunteer at a CSSS to the care units and the emergency

Engineer’s Degree

Master's degree

• Shipping orders to customers
• Repair parts and computers
• Programming I/O board
• Testing games

Shipping Clerk / Technical support

► Objective of enabling aggressive and precise trajectory tracking using a novel custom-made autonomous quadrotor with tilting arms. 

➊ Develop and compare advanced control algorithms for trajectory tracking for an original UAV design. Implement the algorithms both in realistic simulations and on a real prototype (Gazebo/ROS/C++). 

➋ Design mechanical 3D printed parts and manufactured parts in CatiaV5 in order to build a real prototype. Software and electrical integration. 

➌ Experimental validation of the performance on a challenging task : playing ping-pong with the aerial robot. 

► Results:

✓ 40% of balls hit
✓ conceived a tennis table robot substantially cheaper than state-of-the-art ping-pong robotic arm players

Intelligent Systems and Mechatronics Lab - Student Researcher

• Explain concepts covered during class to students
• Doing exercises with students.
• Give homework to students to help them improving

Peer Tutor

• Develop Full Flight Simulator (FFS) Flight Test Documentation for the Global 7000 Program
• Examine the procedures and test logs to identify the required test data
• Prepare test scripts to obtain test data records
• Prepare MATLAB scripts to process flight test data in the required format
• Document flight test results in accordance with SSIM practice
• Compare simulations of ESIM, REF and FFS simulators with in flight data and find solutions
• Produce reports with results of simulations / comparisons
• Train a young CEGEP trainee on the data acquisition procedure in accordance with the SSIM practice

Delivery: 
✓ 30-50 pages report

Summer Intern Systems Simulation

• Design, develop and integrate an ultra-wide band (UWB) positioning system in the company's code base
• Design and assemble a ground robot to operate in hospitals
• Use ROS navigation stack to enable robot positioning and path following
• Develop manual control capability for that robot type on PX4 microcontroller

Robotics Software Developer

► Driver to communicate between an embedded device and a PC for manual control of motors

• Develop a networking library (TCP/UDP) to send commands from a PC to an embedded device in C++.
• Develop a serialization solution using protobuf on the PC side and nanopb on the embedded side.
• Development with ROS to send motor commands from a joystick for motors' manual control.
• Develop object oriented firmware to send commands to motors via serial.
• Firmware memory usage analysis and memory constrained development.
• Benchmark latency and congestion for the developed Ethernet networking library.

► Motion Planning and Robot Driver
► Motion Planning Algorithms, C++, Python, Docker, Cmake, Networking, FANUC, GTest, Linux

• Develop motion planning algorithms to compute robot commands given cartesian goals
• Develop inverse kinematics algorithm for motion planning (CCD)
• Develop time parameterized trajectory generation algorithm 
• Improve path search time in clustered environments
• Develop driver to communicate with a FANUC robot over TCP
• Develop digital twins for robots in UI
• Design multi-layer software blocks following SOLID principles
• Develop complete tests and integration in the CI pipeline

Software Developer

• Optimized algorithms for large-scale simulations FLOEFD, improving computational efficiency.
• Accelerated rendering performance via parallelized CPU computations using Intel TBB in C++17.

Software Engineer

Solopreneur

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