Mitchell Fogelson
Founder at Beyond Reach Labs, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Fogelson is a founder and roboticist currently pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on optimal control, differentiable simulation, and reinforcement learning for robot design. He brings eight years of experience spanning startups and research labs, including founding Beyond Reach Labs and previously serving as a Research Engineer at Rakuten Institute of Technology and a KodLab research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania. A full-stack robotics engineer, he is proficient in ROS, Gazebo, Python, mechanical design, and rapid prototyping with Creo and SolidWorks. Based in Pittsburgh, he holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and is advancing his studies with a PhD at CMU, bringing entrepreneurial grit to academia. He relentlessly blends theory with practice, turning ambitious robotics and AI ideas into production-ready solutions and eagerly seeks collaborative opportunities.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Robotics, Master of Science (M.S.), Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (78)
robotics8
toolbox8
python-37
simulations7
gradients7
simulation7
stable-baselines6
python6
system-identification6
mujoco6
physics6
physics-engine6
verification6
trajectory-optimization6
reinforcement-learning6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mfogelson/11-785_project
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
11-785 Group Project: YouShen Poetry generation
Contributions:2 reviews, 39 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
rakutentech/dorna_arm_ros
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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