Mahsa Parsapour
Vehicle Software Developer at General Motors
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMahsa Parsapour is a Vehicle Software Developer with a PhD in Systems and Control and a decade of experience bridging control theory, robotics, and human motion analysis. She has led research that formulates and implements optimal control and inverse optimization algorithms to model and analyze human squat and limb motions, using tools across C++, Python, MATLAB and simulation frameworks like ROS/Gazebo. Her work spans academia and industry—from postdoctoral datasets and algorithm development at the University of Waterloo to applied vehicle software at General Motors—demonstrating an ability to translate biomechanical insights into robust engineered systems. Skilled in model-based simulation, data cleaning/visualization, and teaching, she combines rigorous mathematical modeling with practical implementation experience on real robots and experimental human data. An understated strength is her track record of adapting advanced control methods (e.g., sliding mode and optimal control) across diverse platforms and scales, making her especially effective at integrating bio-inspired approaches into production-focused software.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering - Control, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering - Control at K. N. Toosi University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems and Control, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems and Control at University of Waterloo
English, Persian, French
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Github Skills (13)
addon8
dynamics7
ros-driver7
imu6
biomechanics6
robotics6
ipopt6
casadi5
ros5
optimization4
simulink2
industrial1
controller1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KM-RoBoTa/pleurobot_ros_pkg
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes in 1 day
MahsaP/gazebo_ros_denso
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 4 months
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