Dominic Liao-McPherson
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of British Columbia
website: https://mech.ubc.ca/dominic-liao-mcpherson/
email: dliaomcp@mech.ubc.ca
Short Bio
I received my BASc in Engineering Science (AERO 1T4 + PEY) from the University of Toronto in 2015 and my PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 2020. I was then a postdoc at the ETH Zürich Automatic Control Lab (ifA) before joining UBC in 2023. My research interests lie at the intersection of optimization, control, and computing with applications in robotics, energy, and aerospace. In my free time, I enjoy skiing, hiking, mountaineering, cooking, and sailing.
PhD Students
Babak Ghaffarzadeh
Research Interests: Real-time Energy Markets, Model Predictive Control, Renewable Energy
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Justin Kernot
Research Interests: Medical Drones, Flight Planning, Aerospace
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Noreen Abdelwahab
Research Interests: Renewable Energy, Data Driven Control
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MASc Students
Dhruv Sirohi
Research Interests: Energy economics, bi-level optimization
Co-advised with Tarun Khanna
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Lauren Bogo
Research Interests: Optimization, 3D Printing, Supply Chains
Co-advised with Adam Clare
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Serena (Shu) Zhang
Research Interests: Construction Robotics
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Desmond Davies
Research Interests: Mobile Sensing, Robotics, Water-quality sampling
Co-advised with Adrien Desjardins
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Ryan Alizadeh
Research Interests: Energy Systems,
Co-advised with Alberto Padoan
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Alumni
Niko Andrianos (MASc)
“Implementing Dynamic Virtual Power Plants with Model Predictive Control”
Chi Keng Dong (MASc)
“Adaptive long-range UAV flight planning using Monte Carlo search trees”
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Visitors
- Sophie Hall (PhD @ ETH Zurich, 07/2023 – 11/2023)
- Pascal Schindler (MA @ TU Munich, 06/2023 – 10/2023)