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bjack205/README.md

My Sofware Philosophy

  • Open source is best! 💪
  • Write everything like someone else is going to read it 🤔
  • Always think about leaving the door open for future development 💡
  • Keep it clean and neat 🧽
  • Make it fast ⚡

My Tools

C++ C CMake Julia LaTeX Python ROS Vim Git

Brief Bio

Mechanical engineer, student, researcher, aspiring roboticist, and avid hiker, I am dedicated to pursuing robotics research to solve meaningful problems. Currently a PhD Candidate in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, my primary research interests include developing fast, robust, and versatile methods for trajectory optimization for robotics applications. Together with my advisor Dr. Zachary Manchester and my colleagues in the Robotic Exploration Laboratory, I hope to use these methods to endow robotic systems with greater ability to interact with humans and the physical world in a safe, reliable, and predictable way.

I started my research with Dr. Manchester at Stanford University, where I had the privilage of collaborating with and learning from some of the brightest scholars in robotics and optimization. My Master’s coursework at Stanford focused on automatic control, optimization, robotics, and some machine learning.

As an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University, my research in computational methods for characterizing the microstructure of materials inspired me to pursue a career in research, while my classes in computer science, robotics, and work on the BYU Mars Rover Team helped me find my passion for robotics. I am excited to build upon these experiences as a PhD student at Stanford and now Carnegie Mellon Universities.

Awards / Recognitions

  • ICRA 2020 Best Student Paper Finalist
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship
  • Tau Beta Pi Scholarship

Notable Papers

Top Projects

🎁 Project Name 📖 Brief Description Language
altro-cpp C++ version of ALTRO C++
rsLQR A multicore direct linear system solver C
Altro.jl SotA nonlinear conic trajectory optimization solver Julia
TrajectoryOptimization.jl Formulating trajectory optimization problems Julia
RobotDynamics.jl Defining controlled dynamics models Julia
RobotZoo.jl A collection of canonical robot models Julia
Mercury.jl Fast ZMQ-based messaging in Julia Julia

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