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Faculty • Research Staff • Postdocs • PhD Scholars • MASc Engineers • Alumni

Faculty, Researchers & Graduate Scholars

Our research team brings together faculty, research engineers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students specializing in computer vision, robotics manipulation, and biomedical systems at the University of Guelph School of Engineering.

Institute Leadership (2) Research Staff (2) MASc Researchers (2) Alumni Network (24)

Institute Directors

Faculty Leadership & Principal Investigators

Dr. Medhat Moussa, P.Eng.

Director & Principal Investigator

Research Focus Vision-Guided Robotics, Tactile Grasping & Smart Agriculture

Professor in the College of Engineering. Founded the Guelph Robotics Institute with focus on intelligent grasping, multispectral field vision, and intelligent agricultural harvesting systems.

location_on Thornbrough Bldg, Room 1339

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Dr. Hussein Abdullah, P.Eng.

Principal Investigator

Research Focus Biomedical Robotics, Assistive Devices & Biomechatronics

Professor in the School of Engineering specializing in biomedical robotics, assistive technologies, and mechatronic systems design. Leads research in rehabilitation robotics and dynamic biomechanical modeling, clinical spasticity assessment, soft robotic hand exoskeletons, assistive human-machine interfaces, and intelligent tactile sensing for precision grasping.

location_on Thornbrough Bldg, Room 3517

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Engineering & Operations

Research Staff & Technical Officers

Cole Tarry, MSc.

Lab Manager & Technical Lead

Research Focus System Integration, Field Testing & Hardware Prototyping

Leads the lab's hardware prototyping, ROS2 infrastructure, and field-testing operations. Supports research group with mechanical, electrical and software engineering needs.

location_on Thornbrough Bldg, Room 3405

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Matthew Veres, M.Sc.

Researcher, Machine Learning Lead

Research Focus Machine Learning for Robotics, Automation, and Precision Agriculture

Machine learning engineer and researcher specializing in computer vision, robotics, and industrial automation with experience spanning from factory automation to robot grasping and intelligent agricultural scouting.

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Master of Applied Science

MASc Research Scholars

Youssef Abdalaziz, B.Sc.

MASc Student & Graduate Research Assistant

Research Focus Computer Vision & Agricultural Perception Systems

MASc student in Engineering AI at the University of Guelph and Graduate Research Assistant at the Robotics Institute. Research focuses on computer vision, machine vision, and applied AI for agricultural perception systems, multimodal plant phenotyping, and digital twin reconstruction.

location_on Thornbrough Bldg, Room 3405

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Madelyn Forrest, B.Sc.

MASc Student & Graduate Teaching Assistant

Research Focus Biomedical Systems & Assistive Healthcare Devices

MASc student in Engineering Systems and Computing at the University of Guelph. Dedicated to creating impactful solutions by merging robotics and computing with healthcare, with a focus on preventative technologies and assistive devices.

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Global Impact

Alumni Network

Nithin Prasad, MASc.

Alumni (MASc. 2025)

Current Career Trajectory Research Associate, University of Guelph

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Detection of Weeds in Lima Bean Fields Using a Deep Learning Pipeline

Faculty, Researchers & Graduate Scholars

Faculty Leadership & Principal Investigators

Dr. Medhat Moussa, P.Eng.

Dr. Hussein Abdullah, P.Eng.

Research Staff & Technical Officers

Cole Tarry, MSc.

Matthew Veres, M.Sc.

MASc Research Scholars

Youssef Abdalaziz, B.Sc.

Madelyn Forrest, B.Sc.

Alumni Network

Nithin Prasad, MASc.

Aurora Duran Gil, MASc.

Zeyad Ghulam, MASc.

Evan Tollenaar, MASc.

Thomas Idzik, M.Sc.

Sammar Haggag, MASc.

Amal Thomas, MASc.

Steph Hughes, MASc., P.Eng.

Brent Van De Walker, MASc.

Abdelrahman Allam, MASc.

Sohail Akhtar, Ph.D.

Farah Masood, Ph.D.

Ian Cabral, MASc.

Patrick Wspanialy, Ph.D.

David Weales, MASc.

Aubrianna Bilyea, MASc. P.Eng

Laura MacNeil, MASc.

Nitin Seth, Ph.D.

Adarsh Tandiya, M.Eng.

Ali Al Hashim, MASc.

Mike Stachowsky, Ph.D.

Tom Hummel, Ph.D.

Jason Harris, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Gregory Jackson, MASc.

Interested in Joining Our Research Team?