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General Information

Full Name Marcelo Jafett Contreras Cabrerea
Date of Birth 21st November 2011
Languages English, Spanish

Education

  • 2024
    MsC
    University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
    • Major in Mechanical Engineering
    • Researching in autonomous navigation in challenging enviorenments
    • Under the supervision of Dr.Ing.Ehsan Hashemi
  • 2019
    BsC
    Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima, Peru
    • Major in Mechatronics Engineering
    • Minor in Robotics

Experience

  • 2024 - now
    Graduate Research Assistant
    NODE Lab, University of Alberta
  • 2022 - now
    Research Assistant
    BCI Group, Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia
  • 2023
    Visiting scholar
    NODE Lab, University of Alberta
  • 2022 - 2023
    Control engineer
    Vultur Robotics, Lima, Peru

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • University of Alberta (UofA) Recruitment Scholarship May/Spring
  • 2023
    • Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Scholarship

Academic Interests

  • Perception for autonomous navigation
    • Dynamic and Semantic V-SLAM/VO
    • Factor graphs for sensor fusion
  • Motion planning
    • Uncertainty-aware planning
    • Reinforcement learning (RL)

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Guitar, Latin american literature, 90's cinema