Summary
Bener Suay is a Staff Robotics Engineer specializing in AI-driven computer vision with 14 years of experience designing and deploying perception and ML systems for real-world robotics in warehouse and logistics environments. He has progressed from hands-on industrial robot programming to leading R&D and production-grade vision stacks at National Robotics Engineering Center, Plus One Robotics, and now Atlas Robotics. Bener pairs a Ph.D. in Robotics and Machine Learning with practical expertise in data pipelines, ingestion and evaluation, ensuring algorithms move reliably from prototype to deployed pallet movers. He is comfortable across the full lifecycle—research, roadmap, code review, testing and release—and brings rare experience bridging academic learning-from-demonstration research with industrial robotics engineering. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines deep technical rigor with a bias for production robustness that reduces friction between models and real-world robots.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Ph.D. Robotics Machine Learning, Ph.D. Robotics Machine Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
B.Sc. Aeronautics and Astronautics Eng., B.Sc. Aeronautics and Astronautics Eng. at Istanbul Technical University
English, French, Japanese, Turkish