Alexander Elias
Senior Software Engineer, Motion Planning at Standard Bots
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Elias is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in motion planning and robotics with nine years of experience blending theoretical rigor and hands-on systems engineering. He holds a PhD from RPI and is the creator of IK-Geo, an open-source geometric inverse kinematics solver used by NASA and cited on Wikipedia, and developed a stereographic SEW angle that expands singularity-free workspaces for 7R arms. His work spans robot kinematics, multi-robot formation control, and embedded control—delivering validated hardware, ROS integration, and centimeter-level localization for real-world manufacturing and on-orbit servicing problems. Comfortable moving between proofs and production code, he has a track record of uncovering surprising properties in commercial robots (e.g., demonstrating cuspidality in ABB manipulators) and shipping practical tools that enable safer, more capable robotic systems.
9 years of coding experience
PhD, Robotics, Control and Automation, 3.97/4.00, PhD, Robotics, Control and Automation, 3.97/4.00 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sign languages, English
Github Skills (29)
crud-application10
inverse-kinematics10
matlab10
python9
cpp9
rust8
internal-tools8
parameterization8
ai-agent8
low-code7
open-source7
no-code7
workflow-engine7
ieee7
workflow-automation7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rpiRobotics/ik-geo
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Inverse kinematics and subproblem solutions from "IK-Geo: Unified robot inverse kinematics using subproblem decomposition" implemented in MATLAB, C++, Rust, and Python.
Contributions:3 reviews, 121 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
cppinverse-kinematicsmatlabpythonrust
rpiRobotics/stereo-sew
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Implementation of stereographic SEW (shoulder-elbow-wrist) angle for 7-DOF robot arms as well as inverse kinematics solutions for several 7-DOF arms from "Redundancy parameterization and inverse kinematics of 7-DOF revolute manipulators".
Contributions:34 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
inverse-kinematicsparameterization
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