Maarouf Saad received the B.Sc. degree ant the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from École Polytechnique of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1982 and 1984 respectively, the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1988. He joined École de technologie supérieure in 1987 where he is teaching control theory and robotics courses. His research interests are in nonlinear control and optimization applied to robotics and flight control system, rehabilitation robotics, power systems and distributed generation.
Mohammad H. Rahman received the B.Sc. in Engineering (mechanical) from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, in 2001, the Master of Engineering (bio-robotics) from Saga University, Japan, in 2005 and the Ph.D. in Engineering (bio-robotics) from École de technologie supérieure (ETS), Université du Québec, Canada, in 2011. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, McGill University (2012-2014). He also served as the faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh (2001-2011). He is currently an assistant professor with the department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA. His research interests are in Bio-robotics, Exoskeleton Robot, Intelligent System and Control, Mobile Robotics, Nonlinear Control, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Systems and Control.
Cristóbal Ochoa Luna received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2016. With his thesis and specialization being in Robotics. He received the degree of Master in Science with specialization in Electronics Engineering and the Bachelor degree in Electronics and Computers Engineering from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in 2003 and 2005 respectively. He worked as Postdoctoral researcher at the ÉTS (2016) and McGill University (2016-2017), in Montreal, Canada; also as Research Assistant at the ÉTS (2017). He was part of the founder team for the Robotic rehabilitation project ÉTS-MARSE. He worked at Ingeniería Automatización Control y Comunicaciones S.A. de C.V. in Puebla, Mexico (2006-2009) as Project Engineer, with functions as project manager of industrial control and automation. He currently works as Career director and full-time professor of the Mechatronics Engineer career at Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Aguascalientes. He is from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. His main areas of interest are on Control, Robotics and Automation .
Abdelkrim Brahmi received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of sciences and technologies of Oran, Algeria, in 1997 and 2009, respectively. The Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from from Quebec University (École de Technologie Supérieure), Montreal, QC, Canada. His current research interests include nonlinear control, adaptive control applied to coordinated robotic systems.
Mohamed-Hamza Laraki was born in Benslimane, Morocco in 1993. He received his B. E in Electrical engineering from École Nationale supérieure d’électricité et de la mécanique (ENSEM), Casablanca, Morocco in 2015. He is currently pursuing a Master degree in École de Technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Canada. His area of interests includes development of smart power management strategies for stand-alone systems as well as power quality improvement