Welcome Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski

We would like to welcome Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski (Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto), to the CPIN Program.

Dr. Laschowski is a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator with the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Rehabilitation Team at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Canada’s largest rehabilitation hospital, and an Assistant Professor (status) in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He also works as a Core Faculty Member in the University of Toronto Robotics Institute and is the Co-Founder and Director of the summer research program in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto for student refugees from Ukraine, funded by the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He received his PhD and master's degrees from the Department of Systems Design Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, respectively, both at the University of Waterloo.

His fields of expertise include machine learning, robotics, computational neuroscience, computer vision, and brain-machine interfaces. The overall vision for his research lab is to improve health and performance by merging humans with robotics and artificial intelligence. As a result of his innovative designs and research, he has published in many leading scientific journals, including the Frontiers in Neurorobotics, the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, and the Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He has given invited talks at top international conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and has been awarded competitive and external funding (e.g., from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada). His award-winning research has been featured on media networks like BBC, CBC, Forbes, and Maclean's magazine.