Teaching

Courses

  • Introduction to Mechanical Engineering – Louisiana State University (Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2024)
  • Theory and Design of Mechanical Control Systems – Louisiana State University (Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
  • Data Driven Dynamics and Controls – Louisiana State University (Spring 2023, Spring 2025)
  • Simulation Methods – Louisiana State University (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
  • Ecological Robotics – Louisiana State University (Spring 2020)
  • Introduction to Robotics – Louisiana State University (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
  • Autonomous Vehicles – Louisiana State University (Spring 2021, Fall 2023)
  • Industrial Robotics –  Louisiana State University (Spring 2026)
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles – University of Michigan (Winter 2018)

Seminars, Tutorials and Laboratories

  • Introduction to Electrical Engineering – Heriot Watt University (Fall 2014, 2015, 2016)
  • Circuits and Analysis – Heriot Watt University (Spring 2016)
  • Robotics Project – Heriot Watt University (Fall 2016)
  • Digital Design – Heriot Watt University (Spring 2014)
  • Statistics – Heriot Watt University (Fall 2013)

Invited Talks

  •  Integrating Data and Domain Knowledge to Advance Marine Robotics. – Office of Naval Research: Unmanned Marine System Technology meeting, Atlanta, GA  (February 2026)
  • Intelligent Underwater Robotics: The Need for Dynamic Models – Underwater Simulation Workshop at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025, Atlanta, GA (May 2025)
  • The capabilities of autonomous marine robots for coastal studies – State of the Coast 2025, Session: Using Novel Technologies to Advance Coastal Restoration in Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (May 2025)
  • Autonomous Surface Vehicles for Environmental Sampling} \\\\ Invited speaker (March 2025) – 2nd Louisiana Harmful Algal Bloom Task Force Meeting: To Protect Our Fresh to Marine Water Resources (Louisiana State University, LA) (March 2025)

  • Intelligent Autonomous Underwater Robotics – Autonomous Investigation during Drilling (AID) Workshop supported by The International Ocean Discovery Program (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA) (January 2025)

  •  Intelligent Underwater Robotics: Adapting to Dynamic Environments  – NOAA Science Seminar (virtual) (October 2024)

  •  Emerging trends in sensing capabilities and their integration with underwater robotics- Combined IEEE 2023 Symposium Sensor Data Fusion and International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and
    Integration (SDF-MFI) (November 2023)

  • Underwater vehicle and manipulator systems: towards energy-efficient behaviors – Invited speaker 
    2nd Advanced Marine Robotics TC Workshop at the IEEE International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems

  • Marine Robotics Seminar: Control systems for underwater robots – Jacobs University, Germany (Spring 2020)
  • Introduction to Engineering: Field trials for underwater robots – University of Michigan (Spring 2019, Spring 2018)
  • Mobile Robotics: Underwater Robots – University of Michigan (Spring 2019)

Student projects from ENGR3100 & ENGR4200

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