Barry Ridge
Perception Lead at AlphaZ
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolBarry Ridge is a perception lead and robotics researcher with 11 years of experience building perception and autonomy stacks for fielded planetary and terrestrial robots. He has led perception work at NASA JPL and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on DARPA RACER, SubT, and Mars Sample Return efforts, and recently developed autonomy software for a research rover platform at CSUN before joining AlphaZ. His background blends deep learning for geometric and semantic perception, ROS-based simulation, and real-world field testing—hundreds of hours in challenging off-road and subterranean environments. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science and has a long track record of taking research from novel neural architectures and simulation to deployed experiments with Perseverance-era hardware. Based in Pasadena, Barry is focused on “learning to let robots learn,” combining rigorous academic methods with practical systems engineering to enable robust autonomy. An often-overlooked strength is his experience coordinating cross-disciplinary teams and managing frequent high-stakes project reviews for government-grade programs.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, Ph.D., Computer and Information Science at Univerza v LjubljaniM.Phil., Mathematics, M.Phil., Mathematics at University of St. AndrewsB.Sc., Computer Applications, B.Sc., Computer Applications at Dublin City University
English, Irish, French, Slovenian
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Github Skills (61)
pointnet10
vim10
emacs10
point-cloud10
templating10
rapid-prototyping10
scripting9
pcl9
classification9
kinect-v29
spacemacs9
geometry-processing9
segmentation9
state-machine9
code-generation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ReconCell/smacha
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
SMACHA is a meta-scripting, templating, and code generation engine for rapid prototyping of ROS SMACH state machines.
Contributions:545 commits, 83 PRs, 144 pushes in 2 years 4 months
code-generationrapid-prototypingrosscriptingstate-machine
barryridge/dotfiles
May 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:69 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
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