He received the BSc degree from Queen’s University in 2003, the MASc degree from the University of Toronto in 2005, and the PhD degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009. From 2009 to 2011 he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Smith is a recipient of the 2016 Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, and an Outstanding Performance Award from the University of Waterloo. His main research interests lie in control and optimization for autonomous systems, with a particular emphasis on robotic motion planning and coordination.