Bowen Yi

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Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal

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Bowen Yi
Polytechnique Montréal
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About

I am an Assistant Professor in Automatic Control at Polytechnique Montréal (Faculty of Engineering of the Université de Montréal), Canada. I am also affiliated with GERAD and a member of the Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory .

I received my Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. Prior to joining Polytechnique Montréal, I held research positions at CNRS–CentraleSupélec (France), the Australian Centre for Robotics (University of Sydney), and the Robotics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia).

I was the recipient of the IEEE CCTA Best Student Paper Award (IEEE Control Systems Society, 2019) and the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council in 2024.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the estimation, learning, and control of nonlinear dynamical systems, with a particular emphasis on robotics and autonomous systems.

Recent News

21 Dec 2025
I will teach ELE6209A – Navigation Systems in French for the first time in Winter 2026. Open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in navigation-related topics. [Course]
20 Dec 2024
Welcome Jeremy Meyer (co-supervised with J. Le Ny) and Sofiane Faidi to our group.
2 July 2025
Participated in the 15th IFAC ALCOS 2025 in Mexico City.
17 Jan 2025
Our paper, A high performance globally exponentially convergent sensorless observer for the IPMSM, has been accepted to Automatica.
15 Jan 2025
Our paper, Adaptive state observers for a class of nonlinear systems, has been accepted to Systems & Control Letters.
18 Sept 2024
Our paper on IMU preintegration has been accepted to Systems & Control Letters.
14 Sept 2024
Our paper, PEBO-SLAM: Observer design for visual inertial SLAM with convergence guarantees, has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Full Paper).
13 Sept 2024
Our paper on position-and-stiffness control of tendon-driven continuum robots has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (Regular Paper).