Aaron Johnson
Hans Fischer Fellow And Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Johnson is a robotics researcher and engineer with 11 years of experience developing dynamic legged and field robots, now serving as a Hans Fischer Fellow at TUM and Professor at Carnegie Mellon. His work bridges hybrid dynamical systems, novel mechanism design, motor modeling, and practical field deployment—ranging from desert experiments to collaboration with Boston Dynamics on rough-terrain gait adaptation. As founder and director of the Robomechanics Lab, he combines hands-on hardware design (including bespoke motors and snake/hexapod platforms) with formal planning and control methods. He also engages with robot ethics and interdisciplinary teaching, bringing systems-level insight from PhD work in electrical and systems engineering and an unusual early background in school IT and industry internships.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Robotics Philosophy, B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Robotics Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (25)
robot-control9
motion-planning8
ros8
dynamics8
ignition8
robotics8
agile7
pybullet7
optimization6
kinematics6
perception5
reinforcement-learning5
python5
artificial-intelligence5
linux2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DiversityInRobotics/DiversityInRobotics.github.io
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 20 comments in 5 days
aaronjoh/amj-tools
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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