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EDUCATION Doctor of Sciences (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering, 2013 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering, 2008 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with Honour Standing in Electrical Engineering, 2006 University of Toronto, Canada   WORK EXPERIENCE Director of Engineering, 2014 -- PresentRapyuta Research AG, Switzerland - Coordinate all engineering-related activities and help define the company's technology strategy and direction - Work with CEO and COO of Rapyuta Research AG (Zurich, Switzerland) and Rapyuta Robotics Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) to determine the feasibility of new business cases and projects - Lead embedded electronics hardware development team and support firmware development for all projects Co-Founder and Chief Architect, 2013 -- 2015Alerion Technologies GmbH, Germany - Direct company's technology strategy and assist in day-to-day management activities - Lead embedded hardware and control systems engineer - Lead author for the European Space Agency's Business Incubation Centre grant proposal, value of 100,000 € Senior Embedded Hardware and Software Engineer, 2012 -- 2014Black Swift Technologies LLC, United States of America - Primary developer of the next generation autopilot system - Lead embedded hardware (electrical schematic capture and layout) and firmware (C/C++) development of the company's leading autopilot and ground control station Research Assistant, 2008 -- 2013Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Lead researcher and developer of the Distributed Flight Array, a modular reconfigurable unmanned aerial vehicle - Lead author of the "Distributed Estimation and Control of Mechatronic Systems," Swiss National Science Foundation continuation grant proposal - Managed hiring process of electrical technician - Administrated the institute's public web page and media templates - Conducted 100+ lab demonstrations to guests from academia, industry, media, and politics - Advised 25+ undergraduate- and graduate-level students in their thesis and semester projects Junior Robotics Engineer, 2008Evolution Robotics, Inc., United States of America - Successfully implemented an N-view bundle adjustment algorithm in MATLAB as a test-bed for future research and development - Carried out a performance analysis of the existing vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping system - Assisted with video camera driver development Research Assistant, 2006 -- 2007Autonomous Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Developed a co-simulator of the CRAB rover in ADAMS and Simulink, which was used as a research tool for the European Space Agency's ExoMars program - Implemented a sigma-point Kalman filter for sensor-corrected 3D odometry in C++ - Created a MATLAB-Lego NXT interface for the Autonomous Mobile Robotics class Laboratory Assistant, 2006Institute of Aerospace Studies Space Robotics Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada - Implemented a visual-localization algorithm in C/C++ on the ARGO rovers, used for autonomous navigation - Completed an electro-mechanical design of a front-loader module for the ARGO rovers Electrical Engineering Research and Development Intern, 2004 -- 2005MDA Space Missions, Canada - Systems integration of an autonomous mobile robotics vehicle employing visual motion estimation - Assisted with motor specifications of the Mars Phoenix Lander, accepted by NASA - Implemented the next generation orbital replacement unit for company demonstrations Integrated Electronic Controls Engineering Intern, 2003Honeywell Ltd., Canada - Performed root-cause analyses on Boeing 777 damaged electronics, which lead to the development of the 777 Reliability Improvement Team - Assisted with electronics testing in the research and development lab - Developed a bar-code scanner in C/C++ on a Palm III, increasing worker productivity Six Sigma Engineering Intern, 2002Cummins OER, Canada - Completed an overhaul of a company-wide inventory management system, enabling efficient access to inventory database and increasing productivity - Produced technical documentation of my work, which assisted in future development   VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES Director of Business Development, 2014 -- PresentRoboJobs.org, USA - Define and execute organisation's business strategy - Administer webpage and support customer activities Robotics Workshop Instructor, 2011 -- PresentDanceBots.org, Switzerland - National Geographic -- Robots 3D, 2015 - Technikwoche, Maur, Switzerland 2013 - Züricher Sport-Ferienlager, Fiesch, Switzerland, 2013 - Kantonsschule Hottingen, 2013 - Festival de Robotique, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013 - Technikwoche, Innerschweiz, Switzerland, 2012 - Technikwoche, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2012 - Zürcher Sport-Ferienlager, Fiesch, Switzerland, 2011 Mechanical Systems Design & Battery Systems Leader, 2002 -- 2007University of Toronto Blue Sky Solar Racing, Canada - Managed a $40,000 budget and directed the mechanical and power systems design of a solar-powered road-vehicle - Placed 5th in the world out of 18 teams and 1st out of all North American teams at the 2007 World Solar Challenge -- Adventure Class - Obtained corporate sponsorship, and represented the team and university at public exhibitions Dragon Boat Team Manager & Paddler, 2003 -- 2006Toronto Dragon Boat Teams - Founded and managed Old Skul'd, a 22-member national-level team - Placed top 10 out of 150+ teams at the 2006 Toronto International Dragon Boat Festival - Awarded Rookie of the Year (2003), and Most Valuable Player award (2004 -- 2005) on the University of Toronto Engineering Dragon Boat Team   AWARDS AND GRANTS - Mechatronics Best Paper Award, Elsevier IFAC, 2014 - Top 10 Business Idea, >>venture>>, 2014 - Business Incubation Grant, European Space Agency Business Incubation Center, 2013 - Continuation Research Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2013 - Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010 - General Chairs' Recognition Award for Interactive Papers, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009 - RoboCup World Champions (Nanogram League), 2007 - Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship, 2001 -- 2006 - Innovation Award, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, 2005 - Cummins Scholarship for Leadership and Community Outreach, 2002   PRESENTATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS - European Space Application Investment Forum, Toulouse, France, 2014 - Zurich.Minds, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013 - University of Colorado Boulder, Research and Engineering Centre for Unmanned Vehicles, Boulder, USA, 2013 - Festival Robotique, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013 - ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Philadelphia, USA, 2013 - IEEE International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems, Algarve, Portugal, 2012 - ETH Zurich Maturandentage, Zurich, Switzerland, 2011 - Swiss Science Center Technorama, Schweizerische Gesellschaft Pro Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2011 - Robots -- The Podcast for News and Views on Robotics, World Wide Web, 2010 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, USA, 2010 - Joint 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China, 2009   SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles R. Oung and R. D’Andrea, “The Distributed Flight Array: Design, implementation, and analysis of a modular vertical take-off and landing vehicle,” International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 375–400, March 2014. R. Oung and R. D’Andrea, “The Distributed Flight Array,” Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 908–917, Sept. 2011. Z. Nagy, M. Fluckiger, R. Oung, I. Kaliakatsos, E. Hawkes, B. Nelson, K. Harada, E. Susilo, A. Menciassi, P. Dario, et al., “Assembling reconfigurable endoluminal surgical systems: Opportunities and challenges,” International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3–16, 2009. Refereed Proceedings M. Kriegleder, T. D. Sundara, R. Oung, and R. D’Andrea, “Rendezvous with bearings-only information and limited sensing range,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems (submitted), Seattle, USA, May. 2015. M. Asadpour and R. Oung, “Networking algorithms on a resource-limited distributed mobile embedded system,” in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Philadelphia, USA, Apr. 2013, pp. 301–302. M. Kriegleder, R. Oung, and R. D’Andrea, “Asynchronous implementation of a distributed average consensus algorithm,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2013, pp. 1836–1841. R. Oung, M. Picallo, and R. D’Andrea, “A parameterized control methodology for a modular flying vehicle,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems, Algarve, Portugal, Oct. 2012, pp. 532–538. M. Kriegleder, R. Oung, and R. D’Andrea, “Distributed altitude and attitude estimation from multiple distance measurements,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems, Algarve, Portugal, Oct. 2012, pp. 3626–3632. R. Oung, F. Bourgault, M. Donovan, and R. D’Andrea, “The Distributed Flight Array,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, USA, May 2010, pp. 601–607. R. Oung, A. Ramezani, and R. D’Andrea, “Feasibility of a Distributed Flight Array,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009, pp. 3038–3044. Z. Nagy, R. Oung, J. Abbott, and B. Nelson, “Experimental investigation of magnetic self-assembly for swallowable modular robots,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, Sept. 2008, pp. 1915–1920. News Articles R. Oung, "The Distributed Flight Array: Modular Robots that Self-Assemble, Coordinate and Take Flight," in www.robohub.org, 2013. R. Oung, "Breaking it down with the DanceBot: Getting started with electronics," in www.robohub.org, 2013.   ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Languages: English (native fluency), French (B2), German (B1)Hobbies: Various outdoor sport activities and tinkering with embedded electronics