Vetted Teaching Assistants in Illinois

“Robotics software engineer who built an open-source, real-time Cartesian controller for Universal Robots UR5/UR5e, targeting sub-mm accuracy at 500 Hz within ROS2/ros2_control. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (timing profiling, singularity handling with Tikhonov regularization) and sim-to-real iteration using Gazebo/Isaac Sim plus physical hardware tuning; also has ROS1 experience building URDF/xacro and EKF configs for an underwater vehicle and has developed drone/robot packages.”

“Computer-vision practitioner and educator who built a real-time license plate recognition system (OpenCV/Python + KNN) optimized to run on a Raspberry Pi with camera integration. Also designs hands-on deep learning coursework, incorporating recent transformer-based vision research (Vision Transformers) into practical labs on real datasets.”

“Backend/data engineer in healthcare who built an AWS-based clinical analytics platform from scratch (DynamoDB/S3/Airflow/dbt) with sub-second clinician query goals, 99.9% uptime, and HIPAA-grade controls (KMS encryption, IAM RBAC, audit trails). Also modernized ML delivery by replacing a manual 4-hour deployment with a 30-minute Docker/GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline using parallel runs, parity testing, and rollback, and caught critical EHR data edge cases (date formats/timezones) that could have impacted patient care.”

“Robotics software engineer with ROS 2 Humble/Nav2 experience on a warehouse robot fleet, focused on improving throughput in dynamic human environments. Implemented C++ local-planner and velocity-control changes using LiDAR-based motion prediction and real-time costmap tuning under a 20ms control loop, and built a Gazebo digital twin with custom failure-injection plugins plus Docker/Kubernetes deployment tooling.”