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AI-assisted flight monitoring and continuous route optimization for airlinesFS DX will give dispatchers the power to manage IROPS events before they happen, improve on-time performance, reduce climate impact, and realize significant fuel savings.My role is to design, build, expand, and maintain the core planning pipeline, integrate with backend, and expose to the user-facing products. A fast, responsive, millisecond-scale pipeline is key to real-time interaction with the users.

San Diego, California, Us

- STANAG 4586 integration for Group 3 aircraft- C++, distributed (message passing) systems- Contingency planning at executive level- Single and multi-agent systems at mid-to-high TRL

- Built a deck with my father-in-law- Made diet.py - a weightloss analysis toolkit: https://github.com/jodavaho/dietpy- Contributed new methods to the NASA Navigation and Ancillary Information library SPICE: https://github.com/GregoireHENRY/rust-spice (Rust)- Freelance work for a stealth mode startup (ongoing) in planning, scheduling, and routing for a very large industry. (Rust, algorithms)- Added functionality to the space telemetry API : https://api.jodavaho.io/s/readme

Golden, Colorado, Us

Principal Software Engineer in the Mission Planning group. Design and implementation of a multi-agent scheduling and routing stack for truck/rail yard operations.Project highlights:- Massive speedups to the Mission Planning pipeline though good old algorithms optimization- Massive speedups to the Site Feasibility Analysis, through good old distributed computing- Homebrew distributed real-time logging and metrics

Seattle, Wa, Us

Since Amazon cancelled the Canvas program, where I worked for 5 months, I am currently on hiatus from any significant responsibilities while I look for new work. Canvas was one of many research programs cancelled, with most folks intended to find new roles in the company.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I manage a Motion Planning and Controls team to design, build, test, and deploy autonomous mobile robots into Amazon fulfillment centers. These robots assist human associates and allow Amazon operations to scale.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Pasadena, Ca, Us

R&D autonomy algorithms and software for distributed autonomy and multi-robot systems for the US Marine Corps, US Navy, and space flight missions.Main interests and research focuses:- Distributed Autonomy, Decision Making, Consensus- Multi-Agent Mission and Path Planning - Space Flight Software Development- Deep Space NetworkingProject Highlights:- [2017-2020] PI: Network and routing protocols for distributed computation over deep space networks- [2015-2020] PI: High speed, robust, adaptive control for multiple autonomous vehicles- [2017-2018] TL: distributed photogrammetry and SLAM for multi-rover system- [2016-2018] TL: Fully autonomous long-range transits of multiple autonomous vessels- [2015-2018] TL: Collaborative deployment of UUVs / Quads from autonomous naval vessels- [2015-2016] Robust decision and task allocation for collaborative heterogeneous robots- [2016-2017] Member of Mars 2020 Rover R&D (GNC / Path Planning) and flight software development.- [2016] Model-based prediction, tracking, and state estimation- [2015] Stereo and Bundle Adjustment for visual target tracking

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Designed GIS plugins and ML-based terrain feature extraction to enable one or more robots to navigate and localize using topological information

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Studied the effect of the next-generation of spaceflight computing on mission design. Implemented distributed scheduling algorithms to field test the ability of robots to autonomously offload computational tasks to nearby CPU-heavy resources in real-time.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Develop lessons, presentation materials, web content, and supporting software. - Oversee workshops and teaching activities.- Design, develop, deploy small-footprint embedded platforms for computer vision applications as part of a team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers.- Lead curriculum developer for software / embedded systems

I help small non-profits establish or improve their web presence by developing web applications and blogs, increasing security of existing products, or simply providing expertise and guidance.Wordpress, PHP, AJAX, OAuth2.0, Dual-Factor Authentication, MySQL, Django, Python, Linux, Apache2.0

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

- Develop Field-deployable autonomous robotic systems for tracking invasive wildlife in land and aquatic environments. - Tested in real-world environments (Minnesota lakes in winter and summer). Yes, our robots found fish in real life.- Competitive algorithms for actively localizing static and moving targets. - Game-theoretic pursuit-evasion and the connection to online function minimization / online learning.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Homework design, lectures and recitation for 20-100 students, exam proctoring, lab help. I assisted with three courses: Algorithms and Data Structures, Intro to Intelligent Robotic Systems, and Machine Structures and Organization.

Ny, Us

- Derivations of satellite-tracking equations for ship-mounted antennae.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Server-side optimization and implementation. Java, Struts, J2EE, Javascript and AJAX

Mankato, Mn, Us

Homework grading, lab tutoring, programming assistance, lectures, etc. I TA'd for three courses primarily: Algorithms and Datastructures, Machine Architectures, and Intro to C++

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

File system drivers, Data acquisition and display. Aeropro. C++

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Server-side optimization and implementation. Java, Struts, J2EE, Javascript and AJAX

Mankato, Mn, Us

Industrial Automation software, LabView, PLC, etc.

North Mankato, Minnesota, Us

Java client-side application development.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Robotics

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics, Computer Science