Russell Buchanan
Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRussell Buchanan is an Assistant Professor in Robotics at the University of Waterloo and founder of the Robotic Interaction, Perception and Learning (RIPL) lab, bringing a decade of research and engineering experience across leading robotics groups in Europe, Australia, and Canada. He holds a DPhil in Robotics from Oxford and an MSc from ETH Zürich, and his work spans robot perception, trajectory optimization for legged systems, and real-world validation on hardware. Prior roles include postdoctoral research at Edinburgh, research engineering at ETH Zürich, and industry internships at ABB and CSIRO, reflecting a blend of rigorous theory and practical systems building. Notably, he has led large student engineering projects (managing 70+ undergraduates) and developed ROS-based controllers and depth-camera mapping pipelines, demonstrating both leadership and hands-on integration skills.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil, Robotics at University of OxfordMSc, Robotics, Systems and Control, MSc, Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH ZürichBEng Electrical Honours, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BEng Electrical Honours, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at McGill University
English
Github Skills (101)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
raabuchanan/raabuchanan.github.io
Jul 2018 - Jul 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:74 pushes in 6 years 1 month
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
ori-drs/allan_variance_ros
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
ROS compatible tool to generate Allan Deviation plots
Contributions:14 reviews, 29 commits, 17 PRs in 11 months
imuroboticsdeviationrosplots
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