Ben Shih
Co-Founder at Stealth
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Shih is a robotics-focused engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience spanning soft robotics, pneumatic actuation, embedded control, and automation. After a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC San Diego and postdoctoral work at Harvard and UCSD, he moved into industry as a senior robotics engineer driving automation at Creator and Symbotic before co-founding a stealth startup in 2026. His background blends deep academic research in assistive and soft robotic systems with hands-on productization for gourmet food automation and large-scale warehouse robotics. Based in Boston, he pairs cross-disciplinary systems thinking with electronics and control expertise, and often bridges lab prototypes to manufacturable solutions. A detail that sets him apart is his early international research experience presenting nanocar spectroscopy in Japan, reflecting long-standing comfort with collaborative, high-impact research.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMontgomery Blair High SchoolMaster of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (3)
skynet9
blockchain6
mozilla1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
benshih/benshih.github.io
Aug 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:138 pushes in 4 years 4 months
brdlsensors/mlsensor
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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