Ali Emadi received the B.S. (1995) and M.S. (1997) degrees in electrical engineering with highest distinction from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He also received his Ph.D. degree (2000) in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He is currently the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) Laureate and a Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also the holder of the NSERC/FCA Industrial Research Chair in Electrified Powertrains and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transportation Electrification and Smart Mobility.

Dr. Mark Lawford is a Professor in McMaster University’s Department of Computing and Software and the Associate Director of the McMaster Centre for Software Certification. His research interests include software certification, application of formal methods to safety critical real-time systems, and supervisory control of discrete event systems. He worked at Ontario Hydro as a real-time software verification consultant on the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Shutdown Systems Redesign project, receiving the Ontario Hydro New Technology Award for Automation of Systematic Design Verification of Safety Critical Software in 1999. He joined McMaster University’s Department of Computing and Software in 1998 where he helped develop the Software Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering programs. He has been a guest co-editor of joint special issues on Software Inspection of IEEE Software and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He served as the Section Chair for Computer Systems on the Computer Science Evaluation Group (EG-1507) for the 2010 NSERC Discovery Grant Competition. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Alan Wassyng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing and Software, the Director of the McMaster Centre for Software Certification, and Acting Director of the Software Quality Research Laboratory. For 15 years, Dr. Wassyng consulted on software development. During this time, he developed an automated backup system that worked over telephone modem connections for a company in Toronto. He was also hired as a consultant by Ontario Hydro (later Ontario Power Generation, OPG) to work on the software-based shutdown systems for the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, helping OPG develop the methods they now use for safety-critical systems and was a key member of the team that developed the software for Shutdown System One (SDS1). For his efforts, in 1995 he was awarded (with others) an Ontario Hydro New Technology Award for “Development of Safety-Critical Software Engineering Technology.” He also developed real-time control and monitoring systems for OPG at their Pickering Nuclear Generating Station in the early 1990s. During 1992-1994, Dr. Wassyng consulted with AECL on the development of Shutdown System Two for the Wolsong reactor in South Korea. He is a co-founder of the Software Certification Consortium and Chair of the Steering Committee. Dr. Wassyng is the PI for an IBM funded research project on dependable software for medical devices as part of the recently announced Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (2012), and is a member of the research team on the Automotive Partnership Canada project – NECSIS (2010). He is co-investigator on the ORF-RE project “Certification of Safety-Critical Software-Intensive Systems,” led by McMaster University and awarded in 2009. Chrysler has recently joined this research project. Dr. Wassyng is an investigator on another ORF-RE project “Model-Based Software Engineering” led by the University of Waterloo (PI: Jo Attlee)

Dr. Dan Centea is an Associate Professor at The W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology, at McMaster University. He is a Faculty Advisor for the McMaster EcoCAR Team.

Arthur Faron is currently pursuing a M.A.Sc. in software engineering at McMaster University. He previously completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechatronics Engineering & Society (Co-op) at McMaster University. He first joined the McMaster EcoCAR team during the third year of the EcoCAR 3 challenge in 2016 as a member of the Propulsion Controls and Modeling team. In 2017 he successfully secured McMaster’s place in the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge through being a part of the Technical Proposal team before becoming a member of the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) team. In 2019 and 2021 he was the undergraduate CAV lead for the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge. In 2022 he took the role of graduate CAV lead for the EcoCAR EV challenge.

Adam Gleeson is a M.A.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, working on the EcoCAR EV Challenge at the McMaster Automotive Research Center. He has been working in the Automotive industry since he finished his undergraduate degree and he is excited to be part of this team doing some groundbreaking design work. He looks forward to learning from his colleagues and sharing his experiences with them.

Luc Rajotte is a 5th year student in the Bachelor of Technology – Automation Engineering Technology program at McMaster. He has been a member of the McMaster EcoCAR team since year 2 of the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge competition in 2019, beginning as a Propulsion Controls and Modeling (PCM) sub-team member and is now the Undergraduate PCM Lead since 2021. Luc will be graduating this December and will be pursuing a Master of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering at McMaster beginning in January 2023.

Alexander Allca-Pekarovic attended the W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology from the Engineering Faculty of McMaster University. He graduated with a B.Tech degree in Automotive & Vehicle Engineering Technology, an advanced diploma in Mechanical Engineering Technology, and a certificate in Business, from Mohawk College. He joined the McMaster Automotive Resource Center in January 2019 as a master’s student in the department of Mechanical Engineering. He transferred to pursue a Ph.D. degree within the department in May 2020, under the supervision of Dr. Emadi. He has investigated the effects on vehicle energy consumption of various electric drive system components, namely Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) traction inverters and an axial flux permanent magnet (PM) machine. This work has involved modeling of these components and validating them against experimental data obtained from dynamometer testing. Further dynamometer testing has been essential for motor characterization. His thesis revolves around the energy management of multi-motor electric vehicles.

Carolyn Visser is a fourth year Mechanical and Society engineering student who is very passionate about sustainable energy and the automotive industry.

Alastair is going into his third year of mechatronics engineering at McMaster. This will also be his third year on the EcoCAR team. He is currently on a co-op with Enedym and will be joining Tesla's Mechanical Design team in January 2023. Alastair looks forward to the next few years of competition as he gets to expand his knowledge and meet even more amazing people.

Samuel is a third-year software engineering student at McMaster on co-op this year at GM! He finds software development really fulfilling, and he is passionate about being someone who accelerates the timeline of getting safe self-driving vehicles on the road. He has learned so much from EcoCAR over the past few years and is very grateful for the knowledge gained and the community he has become a part of. Some hobbies of his include watching YouTube, learning guitar, and playing video games, especially ones with a great story.