Bernard Aceituno
Co-Founder & President at StackAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBernard Aceituno is a founder and AI/robotics researcher with a decade of experience building and commercializing advanced autonomy systems. As Co-Founder & President of StackAI and a former researcher at MIT’s MCube Lab and Meta FAIR, he blends deep academic work in model-based quasi-dynamics and transformer-integrated learning with product-focused execution for enterprise AI agents. His technical contributions span trajectory optimization, contact-rich manipulation, and mixed-integer planning for legged robots, validated on real hardware like HyQ. Bernard also has hands-on startup founding and GTM experience in Latin America, scaling a mobile payments product to thousands of users and leading large distributed teams. Based in San Francisco, he advises and angel-invests in early-stage AI and enterprise startups, pairing PhD-level research rigor with practical startup scaling.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Universidad Simón BolívarDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMinor on Business and Administration, Minor on Business and Administration at MIT Sloan School of Management
English, Spanish, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
react7
markdown6
surface5
text-to-speech5
nextjs5
mdx5
artificial-intelligence4
pcl4
pytorch3
static-site-generator3
physics-engine3
nextra3
physics3
machine-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
baceituno/Grasping
Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
baceituno/baceituno.github.io
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:105 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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