Peyman Karimi Eskandary

Peyman Karimi Eskandary has worked in various engineering positions since 2007. In 2010, they were an engineering intern at SARMA AFARIN, and in 2009 they were a mechatronics designer at KORAND Group. From 2007 to 2010, they were a robotics engineer at CAST (Center of Advanced Systems and Technologies), where they designed and fabricated a novel biomimetic robot fish with hybrid propulsion system and participated in the fabrication of a full-size humanoid robot (SURENA). From 2012 to 2014, they were a student collaborator at Chalmers Suspensions International Inc., where they optimized the design of air suspensions with independent height and stiffness tuning, and designed a fatigue test fixture and its hydraulic actuation system for testing truck air suspensions. From 2014 to 2015, they were an automation designer at SORSYS Technologies, where they developed automated quality inspection machines for parts with complex geometry and provided customized robotic solutions from concept definition and detailed design to fabrication. From 2015 to 2018, they were a research assistant and design engineer at McGill University, where they designed and prototyped a novel two-dof robotic drive (cylindrical drive), proposed and developed the concept of virtual screw by means of cable-driven mechanisms, and developed the kinematics and dynamics model of a pick-and-place robot (SMG). From 2018 to 2020, they were a senior multidisciplinary research scientist (machine learning & control) at Immersion Corporation, where they developed novel control schemes for haptic systems and actuators (LRA, PZT, VCM, etc), called Active Sensing Technology (AST), using machine learning techniques and control theory, and delivered an autoregressive LSTM-based system identification tool for electromechanical systems. Currently, they are a senior controls engineer at Sanctuary AI, where they have architectured control schemes for robotic applications, designed high and low level controllers for various actuators, electro-mechanical and hydraulic systems, and developed robotic applications in ROS / ROS 2.

Peyman Karimi Eskandary has a strong educational background in Mechanical Engineering. Peyman completed a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tehran from 2006 to 2011. Peyman then went on to pursue a Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo from 2012 to 2014. Finally, they completed a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at McGill University from 2015 to 2018.