Vetted Education Professionals in Pennsylvania

“Robotics software engineer/research lead building an off-road mobile base, owning system integration across mechanical/electrical/embedded and developing controls + motion planning deployed from simulation to hardware with ROS 2/ROS 2 Control. Has deep ROS 2 experience (NAV2, MoveIt) and built a GridMap-based off-road elevation-to-traversability mapping stack using nonlinear optimization; also tuned real robots using Vicon and developed a quadcopter geometric/PID controller.”

Het Maheshkumar Sekhalia

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Entry-level Robotics Researcher specializing in autonomy, motion planning, and control

Pittsburgh, PA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-first autonomy and learning: implemented TD3 and CLIP-guided pretraining for physics-based humanoid skill learning in Isaac Gym/DeepMimic. Also built a ROS2 + dual-Docker closed-loop stack for an autonomous wheel loader in Isaac Sim, combining global planning, B-spline smoothing, and real-time NMPC control.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and tuned a contact-implicit MPC controller for a full planar pushing manipulation pipeline (“Push Anything”), including a key fix for complementarity violations that eliminated “ghost pushes” and cut time-to-goal from 40s to 25s. Hands-on with ROS/MoveIt on real robot pick-and-place, improving hardware grasp reliability through TF/frame debugging, and uses Drake/URDF for simulation, contact detection, and MPC development.”

“CMU IoT coursework project builder who implemented an end-to-end TinyML gesture recognition system on a Particle Photon + ADXL345, streaming data via MQTT/Node-RED to a real-time Node.js frontend and deploying a quantized logistic regression model on-device. Also explored multi-drone coordination, implementing leader-follower offset control and a pivot/arc turning strategy to avoid collisions, and brings practical Docker/Kubernetes plus CI/CD workflow experience from internships.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership of scientific and AI-powered systems, including neuron imaging pipelines at Monell Chemical Senses Center and an LLM-based structured information extraction platform for Wharton and PSG. Stands out for turning messy, compute-heavy workflows into reliable production backends with measurable impact, including saving researchers over 50 hours per week.”

“Robotics software engineer with extensive ROS2 experience building and integrating full autonomous navigation stacks (sensor fusion, ICP/occupancy-grid mapping, planning). Hands-on computer vision work for drones, including monocular depth-from-RGB pipelines (Open3D/OpenCV) and model swaps to improve low-light performance. Also experienced in multi-drone coordination with Crazyswarm2 and Vicon-based state estimation, plus Gazebo simulation for TurtleBot, Franka Emika, and a Lunabotics-style excavation rover.”

“Built ToolDreamer, a framework for selecting relevant tools for LLM agents by training a retriever on LLM-generated reasoning traces, and has hands-on experience building multi-agent systems in AutoGen (MAG-V) focused on question generation and tool-trajectory verification. Currently works as an AI-guides supervisor at Penn State, regularly communicating AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.”