Dr. Klaske Van Heusden

Biography

Klaske van Heusden is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at The University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus. Her research focuses on enabling high-performance and high-precision robotics and mechatronics through data-driven learning control. She explores emerging applications in agriculture and health care, utilizing sensor control technology to improve sustainability, safety, and health outcomes. Klaske completed her PhD at the EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where she developed a data-driven feedback-controller design method that guarantees closed-loop stability. She holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Prior to her position at the School of Engineering, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working on algorithms for an artificial pancreas. She has also led interdisciplinary biomedical research projects at UBC's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, focusing on the development of robust closed-loop devices for administering anaesthesia, and is currently engaged in sensing and control for robotic welding.

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