Benjamin Dittes
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolBenjamin Dittes is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 13 years of experience at the intersection of AI, robotics, and autonomous driving, currently leading systems work at Google. He holds a magna cum laude PhD in formal system design for intelligent artifacts and brings deep expertise in system design, rapid prototyping, and embodied intelligence from his time as a researcher at Honda Research Institute Europe. Benjamin combines academic rigor with production-scale engineering, translating complex control and perception research into reliable, integrated systems. He is comfortable across the stack—from formal models and algorithms to system integration and deployment—and is known for bridging research and applied engineering in safety-critical domains. An understated strength is his track record of turning doctoral-level formal methods into practical solutions for real-world robotic and driver assistance systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Technische Universität DresdenDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Formal system design for intelligent artifacts, magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Formal system design for intelligent artifacts, magna cum laude at Universität Bielefeld / University of BielefeldUNSW Sydney
German, English
Github Skills (13)
collections10
open-source10
pdf10
documents10
ai10
data-science10
database10
django-blog9
django-project8
django7
django-rest-framework6
python5
polymer1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
huridocs/topic-classification
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:125 commits, 20 PRs, 103 pushes in 4 months
bdittes/winplay
Dec 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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