Caitlin Heppner
PhD Candidate, 2025-2026
University of Ottawa
Caitlin Heppner is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, and a Research Stream Lead at the Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab. Under the supervision of Dr. Jason Millar, and Dr. Matthew Pan, her research focuses on an analysis of power, governmentality, and normativity in automated navigation systems.
Evan Rimer
MASc, 2024-2025
Queen's University
Evan Rimer is a MASc Graduate from the Interactive Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) lab at Queen's University under the supervision of Dr. Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad and Dr. Matthew Robertson. Currently, Evan is working as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Tavily.
Rafid Saif
MSc, 2024-2026
McGill University
Rafid Saif completed his MSc in Electrical Engineering with the ADVENTOR Program at McGill University, supervised by Dr. Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Dr. Auke Ijspeert. Currently, he is completing his PhD in Robotics and Machine Learning at the University of Toronto.