Josh Vander Hook
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoshua Vander Hook is a planning scientist and Rust developer with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience building and deploying autonomous mobile robotic systems. He leads teams focused on autonomous decision making, multi-robot path planning, novel software architectures, and system design optimization for space exploration, logistics, military, and scientific applications. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he supervised autonomy research and distributed multi-agent and spaceflight software programs, contributing to Mars rover development and deep-space networking. In industry he designed real-time planning pipelines and mission-planning stacks for Flight Science, Outrider, and Shield AI, delivering millisecond-scale performance for live user interactions. His technical toolkit includes ROS, Python, C/C++, Rust, Matlab, Gaussian processes, and nonlinear state estimation, with a strong emphasis on distributed autonomy, graph optimization, and adaptive sensing. Currently based in Minneapolis, he combines research excellence with production-minded leadership to turn complex autonomy concepts into robust systems.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
256reputation
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2answers
9questions
Github Skills (149)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jodavaho/smartcd
Feb 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes in 5 years 11 months
jodavaho/kda-tools
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Allows you to do regression on game journals to determine effective loadouts.
Contributions:1 release, 84 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
regressioneffectiveto-dodeterminejournals
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