He is a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada. He is a senior member of IEEE. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He worked with Atlantis Systems International, Defence Research and Development Canada, and Applied AI Systems Inc. to develop unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles and mobile robots for both domestic and military applications. His research interests include sensor fusion, state estimation, algorithms, control theory, unmanned vehicles, mechatronics, robotics, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, motion planning, and simultaneous localization and mapping.