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Christopher Clark - Bio ::
I grew up
in Kingston, Ontario and stayed there for my undergraduate
education at
Queen's University. After graduating, I took a job as
a controls engineer consultant at
Sterner
Automation in Toronto, Ontario. I soon realized I had
the academic bug and headed to the
University of Toronto
, where I received my Master's of Applied Science in June
of 1998.
I travelled
for almost 10 months after getting married to my wife
Christine in August of 1998. We had a great time
backpacking/climbing in South America, before heading to
the Phillipines to visit our family. We then spent 3
months volunteering with in a children's hostel in South
India. Finally, we toured around Nepal and Tibet.
I studied
towards my Ph.D. in the
Department of
Aeronautics and Astronautics at
Stanford University.
My primary advisor was
Dr. Stephen Rock
in the Aerospace
Robotics Lab, but I also worked closely with
Dr.
Jean-Claude Latombe in the Computer Science
Department. My
research involved developing coordination strategies
for groups of autonomous mobile robots.
I started
working as an Assistant Professor in the department
of Mechanical and
Mechatronics Engineering at the
University of Waterloo.
I developed several new courses, including 2 based on
autonomous mobile robots.
I now work as an
Assistant Professor in the department of
Computer Science
at Cal Poly San Luis
Obispo.
If I am not
working, I spend almost all of
my time hanging out with my family - my wife Christine,
our son Jaden and daughters Sequoia and Talula.
In my spare time
I enjoy running, windsurfing, snowboarding, backpacking,
basketball, rock-climbing and in particular surfing.
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