Amy Phung
Graduate Research Assistant
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Phung is a robotics engineer and PhD candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics & Applied Ocean Sciences at MIT with eight years of hands-on experience building computer vision and robotic systems. Currently a Graduate Research Assistant at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she develops vision-based calibration and ROS-integrated solutions for complex manipulators and field robots. Her background spans aerospace and manufacturing internships at GE Aviation and Relativity Space, where she deployed Python and C++ tools to automate data workflows and enable precise end-effector control in noisy environments. At Olin College she combined teaching, lab leadership, and rapid prototyping—maintaining campus-wide 3D-printing infrastructure and shipping robotics subsystems like an autonomous tractor hitch. She brings a multidisciplinary toolkit that covers simulation-to-hardware integration, control, and user-facing automation, and she’s demonstrated an appetite for turning open-ended research problems into practical, deployable systems. Based in Cambridge, MA, Amy pairs academic rigor (4.0 at Olin) with production-minded engineering across research and industry.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics & Applied Ocean Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics & Applied Ocean Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyRobotics Engineering, 4.0, Robotics Engineering, 4.0 at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Github Skills (36)
tractor10
rviz9
structure-from-motion8
autonomous-robots8
robotics8
simulation8
stereo8
geometry8
intrinsics7
ros7
homography7
computer-vision7
unity3d6
apriltags6
visualization6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
olinrobotics/tractor_sim
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Gazebo simulation + RVIZ data visualization to test tractor code
Contributions:106 commits, 34 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 7 months
gazeboroboticstractorsimulationdata-visualization
ripl/whoi-nui-server-messages
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 11 tags in 2 years 11 months
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