Vetted Research Assistants in the Greater Philadelphia

“Former Google Product Policy Ads professional with 7 years of experience at the intersection of policy, operations, legal, and product. They helped inform the largest trademark enforcement system update in Google Ads history and built scalable documentation and response systems supporting high-volume external case handling and partner operations.”

“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.”