CL2-group

Established July 2021.

The Control, Learning and Logic (CL2) group at the University of Waterloo

Our research aims to develop methods for reliable decision-making of autonomous systems in the wild.

Current members

PhD students
  • Christian Schaible (ECE, 2025 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith.
  • Leroy D’Souza (ECE, 2023 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister.
  • Da Saem Lee (ECE, 2023 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister.
MASc students
  • Mingyue Deng (ECE, 2026 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Roya Firoozi.
  • Mark Chiu (ECE, 2026 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister.
  • Melda Kiziltan (ECE, part-time, 2025 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith.
  • Matteo Golin (ECE, 2025 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith.
  • Lance Pharand (ECE, 2025 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith.
M.Math students
  • Zesheng (Ethan) Jia (CS, 2025 - ). Co-advised with Prof. Charles Clarke.

Former members

  • Dr. Shamak Dutta (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2024-2026). Co-mentored with Prof. Stephen L. Smith. Current position: Research Scientist, Meta.
  • Dr. Jie Wang (Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2022-2023). Co-mentored with Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister. Current position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba.
  • Dr. Mohammad Pirani (Senior Research Associate, 2021-2022). Co-mentored with Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister. Current position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, MME, University of Ottawa.
  • Jiaming Zhong (PhD, MME, 2022-2025). Co-advised with Prof. Amir Khajepour. Current position: Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
  • Krishna Kalavadia (MASc, ECE, 2024-2026). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith. Current position: Software Engineer, Bloomberg.
  • Praneeth Kolapalli (MASc, ECE, 2024-2026). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith. Current position: PhD Student, KTH (Sweden).
  • Akash Karthikeyan (MASc, ECE, 2023-2025). Current position: PhD Student, Montreal Institute of Machine Learning (MILA).
  • Arezoo Alipanah (MASc, ECE, 2023-2025). Current position: PhD Student, Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
  • Avraiem Iskander (MASc, ECE, 2023-2025). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith. Current position: Software Engineer (Algorithms and Optimization), RideCo.
  • Prajwal Thakur (MASc, ECE, 2023-2025). Co-advised with Prof. Amir Khajepour. Current position: Autonomy Engineer, Addverb Robotics.
  • Zhao-Feng (Jack) Dai (MASc, ECE, 2022-2024). Co-advised with Prof. Stephen L. Smith. Current position: Software Engineer, Apple.
  • Soroush Mortazavi Moghaddam (MASc, ECE, 2022-2024). Co-advised with Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister. Current position: Data Scientist, Open Power.
  • Leroy D’Souza (MASc, ECE, 2022-2023). Co-advised with Prof. Sebastian Fischmeister. Current position: PhD Student, University of Waterloo.