Vetted Research Assistants in the Greater Philadelphia

“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.”

“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.”

“UPenn robotics researcher who architected a real-time autonomous driving decision-making engine, integrating LSTM trajectory prediction with MPC in CARLA and adding conformal prediction to deliver 95% statistical safety guarantees under strict latency constraints. Also built and debugged an autonomous quadrotor stack with ESKF-based 6-DoF tracking and optimized A*/Dijkstra planning to eliminate latency-induced instability, with experience bridging heterogeneous simulation/control systems.”

Sree Gautham Alluri

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Mid-level Robotics & AI Developer specializing in autonomous navigation and LLM-powered robotic systems

Exton, PA6y exp

“Robotics Support Engineer at HAI Robotics supporting a 385-robot warehouse fleet at a Shein client site. Built a production automation and reporting workflow to diagnose and resolve abnormal shelf locations, cutting incidents from ~250/day to ~25/day while providing actionable root-cause data to client/ops/maintenance. Hands-on ROS 2 (Humble) debugging across Nav2/localization/TF and sensor integration issues including QoS and firmware coordination.”