Benjamin Kolligs
Senior Research Engineer - Robot Learning at Maven Robotics
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kolligs is a Senior Robotics Software Engineer with eight years of experience building autonomy for lunar rovers, search-and-rescue platforms, and AI-driven manipulation systems. Trained at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Systems Development program, he blends state estimation, motion planning, controls, simulation, and machine learning to deliver field-ready robot brains—from Kalman-filtered flight software used on MoonRanger to production ML-driven manipulation at Ambi. Now advancing simulation and reinforcement learning at Maven Robotics, he has a track record of turning research-grade algorithms into robust software architectures and vehicle models that handle real-world slip and sensor drift. A physicist and former student pilot, he brings a systems-level intuition and experimental rigor that often surfaces non-obvious practical fixes to perception and control problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Robotics Systems Development, Master of Science - MS, Robotics Systems Development at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Physics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Physics at Lewis & Clark College
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Github Skills (112)
robotics9
rust9
cffi9
binding9
compiler8
multimodal8
cpp8
python8
pypy8
ffi8
c118
cargo8
cpython8
plugin8
visualization8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bkolligs/vobo
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Lightweight OpenGL/Vulkan based visualizer software for Robotics prototyping purposes
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 95 pushes in 8 months
openglroboticsvulkancomputer-graphicscpp
howde-robotics/dragoon_executive
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
For handling errors, command requests, and preparing for autonomy if time allows.
Contributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
handlingautonomy
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