Benedikt Mersch
SLAM Engineer at Filics
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolBenedikt Mersch is a SLAM engineer with six years of experience blending academic research and applied robotics, recently transitioning from a PhD and research assistant role at the University of Bonn to industry at Filics. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from TU Hamburg and has a background in system modeling and control from work at the German Aerospace Center, giving him strong foundations in both algorithm development and experimental test-rig implementation. His expertise centers on simultaneous localization and mapping, sensor fusion, and bringing research prototypes into robust implementations for real-world systems. Based in Bonn, he combines rigorous academic methods with hands-on engineering pragmatism, often bridging gaps between theory, lab validation, and product-ready SLAM solutions.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical engineering at Technische Universität Hamburg
Github Skills (54)
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3d-mapping10
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data-structure10
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PRBonn/4DMOS
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Receding Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data Using Sparse 4D Convolutions (RAL 2022)
Contributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
point-cloud-processingsparselidar-datamoving-object-segmentationpoint-cloud
PRBonn/MapMOS
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Building Volumetric Beliefs for Dynamic Environments Exploiting Map-Based Moving Object Segmentation (RAL 2023)
Contributions:1 release, 37 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 5 months
clouddeep-learningmapminkowski-engineminkowskiengine
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