Avik De
CTO at Ghost Robotics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAvik De is a robotics-focused technology leader and co-founder/CTO of Ghost Robotics, guiding advanced legged robotics since 2015. He holds a PhD in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania, with research spanning neuromechanical control, SLAM, and real-time robot dynamics. He blends hands-on engineering, academic rigor, and product-oriented leadership across Harvard, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, and industry to push safe, animal-like locomotion for challenging tasks. As an open-source contributor, he worked on Bullet Physics SDK (TwoJoint robot simulation), improving joint control, simulation fidelity, and licensing with cross-language tooling (C++, MATLAB). Based in Philadelphia, he has a decade-long track record of building and scaling robotics software in both research and startup contexts. His work is driven by a goal to enable robots to perform tasks humans should not have to do, focusing on safe, efficient, and capable motion.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
simulations10
simulation10
robotics10
c-language10
matlab10
kinematics10
c-programming-language10
animations8
animate8
animation8
game-development8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bulletphysics/bullet3
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Avik primarily contributed to the "TwoJoint" example within the Bullet Physics SDK, adding and modifying code for a robot simulation. They implemented a C++ program to simulate the robot's dynamics, including joint control and state monitoring, and wrote a MATLAB script to compare simulation results. The contributions included code refactoring, fixing compilation issues, and adding licensing information.
pybulletbullet-physicssimulationsimulatorreal-time
avikde/koduino
Dec 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:432 commits, 379 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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