Ayonga Hereid
Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolAyonga Hereid is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University with 12 years of experience specializing in control, optimization, and robotics, particularly nonlinear trajectory optimization and optimization-based control for legged robots. His work bridges theory and practice: he develops effective formulations and ultra-fast algorithms for complex dynamical systems and implements advanced nonlinear optimal control in real time on hardware. Prior roles at University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, and Texas A&M involved exoskeletons, motion planning, feedback control with learning, and experimental realization of dynamic walking on platforms like DURUS and ATRIAS. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Mechanical Engineering—with hands-on hardware and embedded systems experience from DSP/FPGA IMU work and multi-agent instrumentation bus development. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he actively translates optimization research into practical robotic locomotion and control systems. Colleagues can expect a researcher who pairs rigorous algorithm design with demonstrated real-world deployment.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0 at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.8, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.8 at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese, Mongolian
Github Skills (25)
simulation10
robotics10
python10
dynamic10
robot10
hybrid10
optimization10
polyhedra5
urdf4
kalman3
kalman-filter2
particle-filter2
filter2
mathematics1
math1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ayonga/frost-dev
May 2016 - Oct 2022
Fast Robot Optimization and Simulation Toolkit (FROST)
Contributions:487 commits, 17 PRs, 220 pushes in 6 years 5 months
roboticspythonfrostdynamicoptimization
UMich-BipedLab/C-Frost
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 9 months
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