Benedikt Mersch
Senior 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.
7 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 Hamburg University of Technology
Github Skills (52)
robotics10
convolutional-neural-networks10
4d10
basler10
volume-rendering10
3d-mapping10
odometry10
openvdb10
gigevision10
lidar-data10
segmentation10
voxel10
ros-driver10
lidar10
point-cloud10
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, 30 PRs in 4 months
3dlidar-datasegmentationmos4d
bfjs/DICE-Firmware
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:264 pushes in 3 months
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