Alexandre Girard
Professeur Agrégé at Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Girard is a roboticist and associate professor at Université de Sherbrooke with a decade of experience spanning mechanical design, control theory and learning algorithms for robots, actuators and vehicles. He holds a PhD from MIT and a background that bridges hands-on mechanism design with formal control law development and modern data-driven methods. His work focuses on controlling motion across hardware and software layers—sensors, actuators and algorithms—bringing research into practical, testable systems. Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he maintains a public portfolio (alexandregirard.ca) that highlights both experimental platforms and theoretical contributions, reflecting a rare mix of classroom teaching, academic research and lab-scale prototyping.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Université de Sherbrooke
Github Skills (17)
simulation10
robotics10
python10
toolbox10
dynamics10
robot10
control-systems10
planning10
dynamic-programming10
reinforcement-learning9
aerodynamics9
ros5
controlling5
architecture3
behavior3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alx87grd/Notes-Robotique-UdeS
Jan 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
alx87grd/UdeS-Robotics-ROS
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 21 pushes in 5 months
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