Avinash Singh
Principal Research Engineer at Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAvinash Singh is a Senior Research Engineer specializing in motion planning and robot navigation with 10 years of hands-on experience across industry and academia. He combines deep expertise in SLAM, control systems, and sensor fusion (LiDAR, IMU, stereo cameras, UWB) with strong software skills in Python, C++ and ROS to deliver real-world robotic systems. After an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, he developed millimeter-scale inertial reorientation mechanisms in graduate research and now applies that dynamics-first mentality to autonomy problems at Honda Research Institute USA. His work bridges perception, planning and embedded platforms—experienced on Jetson, Raspberry Pi and real-time targets—enabling rapid prototypes and scalable integrations. Comfortable across Gazebo simulation and field deployments, he brings a pragmatic blend of research rigor and product-focused engineering. He’s also an active GitHub maintainer for navigation and path-planning projects, reflecting ongoing commitment to open robotics software.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering at University of WashingtonRashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
Hindi, Marathi, English
Github Skills (10)
hugo-theme8
responsive7
hugo7
golang6
nodejs4
ros-node4
static-site-generator4
ubuntu-touch3
electron2
point-cloud1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avs2805/sabertooth_rospy
May 2020 - Jan 2021
ROS node to control a diff-drive robot with a sabertooth motor controller with Teleop_twist_joy node
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 8 months
ros-node
avs2805/ros-kinetic-dev-env
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:19 pushes in 6 months
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