Matei Ciocarlie
Roboticist, Faculty At Columbia University, And CSO at Tangent Robotics
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatei Ciocarlie is a robotics leader and scholar who designs intelligent systems for human environments. As Chief Science Officer at a stealth robotics startup and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, he blends cutting-edge research with hands-on leadership, focusing on autonomous manipulation, shared autonomy, teleoperation, and assistive robotics. His work on reliable mobile manipulation and novel hand designs aims to perform stability and grasp tasks with less computation, while contributing to the ROS ecosystem. A former researcher at Willow Garage and senior scientist at Google, he has helped shape practical robotics tooling and open-source infrastructure. Based in New York and holding a Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from Columbia and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from University Politehnica of Bucharest, he translates research into deployable solutions and is exploring tactile and proprioceptive sensing to advance human-robot collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (15)
simulation10
lists10
ros10
simulator10
ros210
robotics6
detector6
tabletop5
react4
python3
database2
3d-models2
sql-databases1
databases1
sql1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ros-interactive-manipulation/tabletop_object_perception
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
pythondetectortabletop
ros-gbp/sql_database-release
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:89 commits in 2 days
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