Vetted Research Assistants

“Robotics/software engineer who deployed a Raspberry Pi computer-vision-controlled 3-axis platform at FuelCell Energy, improving screen-print alignment from >10mm to 0.01mm repeatability via encoder-based closed-loop PID control. Currently designing an AI-enabled hearing-aid accessory for the cocktail party problem using a multi-mic array, beamforming, and an edge-accelerated neural network with <10ms latency via shared-memory DSP integration.”

“Autonomous robotics student who built an end-to-end ROS2 semantic goal navigation system as a solo course project, integrating CLIP-based vision-language understanding with SLAM Toolbox and Nav2 to execute natural-language commands in Gazebo/RViz. Also implemented and tuned an RRT planner from scratch in Python and uses Docker plus GitHub workflows for reproducible, tested robotics codebases.”

“Robotics/control-focused engineer who built and validated a series elastic actuator control stack end-to-end (dynamic modeling, torque/position control, simulation, and experimental real-time debugging on hardware). Deep simulation background (OpenFOAM/COMSOL/Abaqus) and practical reproducibility tooling (Docker/CI), with conceptual ROS/ROS2 knowledge and confidence ramping into ROS-based stacks.”

“At Delta Electronics, partnered with automotive firmware teams to productionize an LLM-based coding assistant for identifying safety standard violations and generating bug-fix guidance. Built an agentic workflow with stepwise context extraction, similarity search, and a separate judge model for scoring reasoning/retrieval, and drove internal adoption through pain-point discovery and tailored technical demos using real firmware code.”

“Integration engineer at ES Foundry who led deployment of ELsentinel, a production EL image-based solar cell quality monitoring system using a Swin Transformer classifier (>0.8 F1 across 15+ classes) plus a live real-time prediction dashboard. Strong in solving messy labeling/data-quality problems with process-team collaboration and shipping ML systems despite limited compute/infrastructure.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on sim-to-real experience: built and deployed a reinforcement-learning vision policy at The Boring Company to align a robot end effector to tunnel lining engagement holes, owning the full pipeline (SolidWorks/URDF modeling, PyBullet + Stable-Baselines3 training, and on-machine deployment). Also modified ArduPilot and tested custom drone algorithms via ROS/Gazebo using MAVROS and VICON-based localization.”

“PhD-trained engineer with ~3.5 years of consulting experience building simulation/ML-driven manufacturing software. Deployed an ML surrogate model as a .NET C# DLL integrated with MES workflows, and resolved a critical pre-production latency issue by redesigning serialization/storage. Also built Python-based integrations across CAD/CAE tools and cloud material databases using an XML data model, with a strong interest in digital twins and real-to-sim/sim-to-real robotics workflows.”

“New grad who has shipped a production vision-language recommendation feature for a pet camera/mobile app, including building a tagged video dataset with human annotators and optimizing inference by FPS downsampling under device compute limits. Also built a multimodal MLLM benchmark using an LLM-as-judge (GPT-5-thinking) with a feedback loop, validated against human scoring, and measured post-feedback quality gains (12% average score improvement).”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”

“Applied ML to physical EV fleet systems at ST Labs, building a real-time CNN-LSTM fault prediction pipeline from streaming vehicle telemetry and addressing live data alignment issues via resampling/interpolation and buffered inference. Also developed a V2G/G2V energy transfer algorithm to automate charging/discharging for profit optimization, and made high-impact low-latency pipeline decisions at Astera Holdings using profiling, replay testing, and live A/B validation.”

“Cornell master’s student (CS/Stats) focused on research-heavy ML projects: implemented a sparsity-driven RL approach (DAPD + Soft Actor-Critic) that maintained stable learning even with ~95% of weights removed in OpenAI Gym continuous-control tasks. Also worked on diffusion-based computer vision with conditioning and latency-focused U-Net choices, and scaled unsupervised community detection on a 50k-node/800k-edge Reddit graph via BFS subgraph sampling.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience across reinforcement learning and ROS/ROS2, including a project teaching Boston Dynamics Spot to open a door by combining vision-based pose estimation with SAC-trained IK and a walking policy in MuJoCo. Previously built ROS Noetic control for surgical robots using RCM with MoveIt IK and achieved sub-0.02s latency via threading; also participated in a NASA ROS2 space simulation building rover teleop and sensor-driven mapping.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an end-to-end mobile manipulation platform (Franka Panda on a Clearpath Ridgeback) for a simulated-kitchen human-robot interaction study with natural speech commands, implemented in Python/ROS. Has hands-on experience integrating diverse sensors (RealSense, LiDAR, biosignals) with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face) and fine-tuning GPT-Neo, plus simulation (Gazebo) and modern deployment practices (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD).”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the end-to-end navigation stack for a mobile manipulation robot (Cone-E), integrating ZED-2i SLAM into a real-time occupancy grid with live obstacle avoidance, A* planning, and lookahead control. Strong in real-time debugging and stability improvements (goal snapping/locking, obstacle persistence, rate-limited replanning) and validates changes on hardware, supported by simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI-based testing.”

“Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 autonomy experience across F1TENTH and Turtlebot platforms, building planning/control behaviors (Pure Pursuit, Follow-the-Gap, emergency braking, PID wall following) and validating in Gazebo/RViz. Also integrated a custom curvature-based speed planning node into Autoware (with AWSIM), demonstrating practical autonomy stack integration and strong debugging of LiDAR pipelines.”

“Computer-vision-focused candidate with internship experience at ASML (Silicon Valley) building object detection models (YOLO, RT-DETR) for SEM defect inspection. Worked end-to-end on preparing multi-resolution datasets and tuning/training strategies, noting improved performance on low-quality images when training jointly on higher-resolution data.”

“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.”

“Software engineer who built and deployed OddPulse, a multi-agent LLM-powered continuous financial auditing system aimed at reducing compliance penalties by catching issues before audit cycles. Experienced with TrueAI-based agent orchestration, Airflow on GCP batch workflows, and rigorous evaluation/benchmarking (hit rate/MRR, latency/TTFT, cost) alongside security controls for sensitive financial data.”

“Head of Robotics at Orbital Composites who built the full ROS-based software stack ("OrbOS") for multi-robot KUKA-arm 3D printing of carbon-fiber composite geometries. Deep in motion planning and real-time control—created a pipeline to turn underconstrained toolpaths into optimal joint trajectories at massive command scale, plus redundant safety gatekeeping and a 250Hz synchronized robot+extruder controller. Has operated in a technical-founder capacity for ~6 years and values an engineering culture of openness, honesty, accountability, and high ownership.”

“Revamped a university academic calendar system into a Python-based calendar generation service, turning a weeks-long manual scheduling workflow into software that generates dozens of valid calendar combinations in under a minute. Also contributed to an Amazon search ML classifier by introducing precision/recall evaluation to better surface critical failure modes and improve prediction quality.”