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Career

· Senior Director of Software Engineering - Fleet Operations, Symbotic2025–
· Senior Director, Engineering, InOrbit, Inc.2023–2024
· Director, Robotics Engineering, Zebra Technologies2021–2023
· Director of Robotics, Fetch Robotics2017–2021
· PhD - Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute2011–2016
· Bachelor's Degree with Honors, Dickinson College
· Lead Robotics Engineer, Fetch Robotics
· Master's Degree, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Publications (16)

Robot Web Tools: Efficient messaging for cloud robotics
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2015
96
cited
The robot management system: a framework for conducting human-robot interaction studies through crowdsourcing
J. Hum. Robot Interact. · 2014
67
cited
Robot Web Tools [ROS Topics]
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. · 2012
53
cited
A Practical Comparison of Three Robot Learning from Demonstration Algorithm
International Journal of Social Robotics · 2012
40
cited
Message authentication codes for secure remote non-native client connections to ROS enabled robots
International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications · 2014
30
cited
Unsupervised learning of multi-hypothesized pick-and-place task templates via crowdsourcing
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2015
17
cited
Temporal persistence modeling for object search
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2017
14
cited
Efficient programming of manipulation tasks by demonstration and adaptation
IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication · 2017
12
cited
Adaptive Autonomous Grasp Selection via Pairwise Ranking
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2018
5
cited
Evolving Robotic Desires: A New Approach to Bridging the Reality Gap
2011
2
cited
Bringing Human-Robot Interaction Studies Online via the Robot Management System
2013
1
cited
Learning of Multi-Hypothesized Task Templates from a Corpus of Noisy Human Demonstrations
2010
1
cited
Spatial and Temporal Learning in Robotic Pick-and-Place Domains via Demonstrations and Observations
2016
1
cited
Leveraging Autonomous Segmentation and Grasp Calculation for Programming by Demonstration
2018
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