Ilknur Umay

Dr. Umay completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo and received her Ph.D. in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She graduated first in her undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program. Her research has focused on task and motion planning, multi-robot coordination, autonomous systems, localization, adaptive control, and humanoid robotics in dynamic and uncertain environments. Throughout her career, Dr. Umay has worked with industrial robots, collaborative robots, mobile manipulators, humanoid systems, and medical robotics applications. Her work combines robotics, artificial intelligence, planning, perception, and control to develop practical and reliable autonomous systems for real-world deployment. At ADM Montréal, Dr. Umay will discuss how Physical AI, planning, orchestration, and execution technologies can be integrated to build dependable industrial autonomy for next-generation manufacturing systems.