Benned Hedegaard
Graduate Research Assistant
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolBenned Hedegaard is a Brown CS PhD student and graduate research assistant specializing in human-robot language interaction with eight years of hands-on experience across robotics, semantics, and teaching. His published work as first author (IROS 2021) on the Efficiently Adaptive State Lattice demonstrates a practical knack for efficient robot trajectory planning, and his later undergraduate research explored semantic annotation for faster language grounding. He has a strong instructional background—TAing courses from AI to Data Structures and leading peer workshops—which complements his research by honing his ability to communicate technical ideas clearly. Based in Providence, he combines rigorous academic training with applied robotics systems experience and a proven track record of turning semantic insights into efficient inference mechanisms.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Brown UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (10)
controlling9
ros-driver9
robot8
dynamics8
ros8
robotics7
workspace5
python3
sphinx3
moveit3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Benned-H/spot_skills
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Motion-planning-based skills for Boston Dynamics' Spot robot
Contributions:293 reviews, 68 PRs, 309 pushes in 7 months
Benned-H/UR-Lunabotics
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Repository holding all UR Lunabotics software
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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