Ali Paikan
CTO at LuxAI S.A.
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Paikan is a CTO with 14 years of experience applying robotics, distributed systems and AI to real-world products, currently leading LuxAI’s development of QTrobot to improve autism therapy. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Robotics and postdoctoral research on middleware and real-time distributed validation—with hands-on product and innovation roles across industry, including corporate robotics initiatives at MSC Cruises. Comfortable bridging research and business, he pairs technical leadership with recent MBA-level business acumen from the Luxembourg School of Business. Ali’s background in embedded and mechatronics R&D informs pragmatic system design choices that scale from prototype to therapeutic deployment.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Hardware Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Hardware Engineering at Azad university of QazvinMaster's Degree Computer Science and Engineering (EMARO 2), Master's Degree Computer Science and Engineering (EMARO 2) at Università degli Studi di GenovaMaster of Business Administration - MBA MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA MBA at Luxembourg School of BusinessMaster's Degree Automatic Robotic Signal and Image (EMARO 1), Master's Degree Automatic Robotic Signal and Image (EMARO 1) at Centrale NantesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
English, Italian, French, Spanish, Persian
Github Skills (62)
artificial-intelligence10
robotics10
middleware10
controller10
ipc10
robot10
network10
interprocess-communication10
yarp10
unit-test10
testing9
cmake-modules9
rtf9
ros9
webserver8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apaikan/yarp
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:36 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
yarpyet-anotherroboticsrobot
apaikan/robot-testing-framework
Dec 2021 - Mar 2026
Robot Testing Framework (RTF)
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
rtftesting
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