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Pasadena, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Developing the autonomy software stack for a new research rover platform for the CoHORT (Cooperative Human Operations with Robot Teams) project, which is based on the Mercury 7 rover developed for NASA JPL's CADRE Mission.

Pasadena, California, United States

Perception Systems Group, Mobility and Robotic Systems Section

Pasadena, California, United States

Perception Systems Group, Mobility and Robotic Systems Section.Sep 2021–Present: DARPA RACER Program - Working in the Perception Sub-Team of the JPL-lead group participating in the DARPA RACER program with the goal of developing a variety of geometric and semantic perception systems to enable autonomous navigation and traversal capabilities for a.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Humanoid & Cognitive Robotics Lab, Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics & Robotics.Worked on European Union Horizon 2020 Project QU4LITY.Continued work on extending image-to-motion encoder-decoder deep neural network architectures to handle sequential data in human-robot interaction scenarios.

Kyoto, Japan

Department of Brain Robot Interface, Computational Neuroscience Laboratories.Invited for a three month period as a visiting researcher to extend prior work on image-to-motion encoder-decoder deep neural network architectures to handle sequential data in human-robot interaction scenarios.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Humanoid & Cognitive Robotics Lab, Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics & Robotics.Worked on European Union Horizon 2020 Project QU4LITY.􏰡Worked on European Union Horizon 2020 Project AUTOWARE. - Developed project for deployment of deep neural network training jobs for visual inspection and quality control tasks to high-performance computing cluster.

Kyoto, Japan

Department of Brain Robot Interface, Computational Neuroscience Laboratories.􏰡Recipient of an NICT Japan Trust International Research Cooperation Program Fellowship. - Designed a novel neural network architecture allowing a robot to learn hand-writing trajectories from images of digits in different poses. - Developed a ROS stack for control of the CBi.

Slovenia

Humanoid & Cognitive Robotics Lab, Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics & Robotics.2016–2019: Worked on European Union Horizon 2020 Project ReconCell. - Designed an API for ROS state machine meta-scripting, templating & code generation. - Co-designed ROS architecture for control of rapidly reconfigurable robotic workcell. - Coordinator between robot.

Slovenia

Visual Cognitive Systems Lab, Faculty of Computer & Information Science.􏰡 2010–2012: European Union FP7-ICT Project CogX. - Developed self-supervised multi-view online learning vector quantization algorithm. - Integrated work within the overall CogX project software framework.􏰡2006–2009: European Union FP6 Marie-Curie RTN Project: VISIONTRAIN. - Ph.D..

Taught pre-calculus & calculus to a first year undergraduate tutorial group.

Worked on redeveloping surfingireland.net, a website for the Irish surfing community. Employed to develop a content management system for a private business website.

Ireland

Worked extensively on the ireland.com property portal page and gained experience working in many tiers of the web product lifecycle, from testing to development.

Ireland

Tutored large lab groups & supervised lab examinations in Assembly, Java and C programming at the department’s computer laboratories.

Ireland

Designed & built an employee timesheet database system to assist in logging the working hours of off-site employees. Also helped maintain other databases.

Ph.D., Computer And Information Science

Thesis title: Learning Basic Object Affordances in a Robotic System

M.Phil., Mathematics

B.Sc., Computer Applications