Vetted Research Assistants in Michigan

“Robotics software engineer with Samsung Research America internship experience as primary developer on a real-time dense mapping system producing point clouds, plus a monocular depth-estimation framework using positional data. Hands-on ROS 2 and CAN integration from a University of Michigan autonomous shuttle project, and practical SLAM/motion-planning experience including handling the kidnapped robot problem and Dockerizing ORB-SLAM3 environments.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building a dual-arm (Kawasaki duAro) Cranfield assembly task-planning and motion-planning stack in ROS/MoveIt, using PDDL + behavior trees and OMPL for collision-free execution. Improved tight-tolerance insertions by integrating RGB-D visual servoing into the task planner loop, and also built an LLM-driven navigation pipeline with ORBSLAM3 for natural-language command parsing and real-time replanning.”

“Robotics software candidate with hands-on experience building a self-balancing, Segway-like robotic ambulator by deriving and iteratively improving the full dynamics model (including bearing losses, BLDC back-EMF, and accurate COM estimation). Has practical ROS/ROS2 exposure (tf2, RViz, rosbag2, slam_toolbox) plus Gazebo/Simulink simulation and Turtlebot vision-based obstacle avoidance using ROS + MATLAB.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on state estimation and localization reliability, with deep hands-on EKF tuning/validation using DGPS ground truth and integrity-risk-based uncertainty calibration. Built middleware-agnostic interfaces with ROS wrappers to enable repeatable ROS bag playback testing, and implemented CI at Caterpillar to automatically build the localization stack and run unit tests plus bag-based regressions before merge.”

“Built and deployed a production multimodal language translation platform (text-to-text, speech-to-text, text-to-speech) using fine-tuned pretrained models (NLLB, XLSR), MLflow-orchestrated pipelines, and Docker/Kubernetes on AWS. Worked closely with non-technical linguists to tackle data cleaning and dialect variation in minority languages, improving accuracy through consistent evaluation and monitoring.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience taking a Gaussian Process Regression-based intelligent survey timing system from build to real-world deployment, including a 3-week RCT on 120 participants and measurable improvements (15% response rate, 23% data quality). Also served as a key technical resource at CData for customer-facing demos and debugging hundreds of production issues, bridging engineering with Sales and Customer Success.”