Brian Goldfain
Senior Research Scientist at Woven Planet
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Goldfain is a Senior Research Scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in robotics, planning and controls for autonomous vehicles, currently working at Woven Planet after research roles at Toyota Research Institute. He completed a PhD at Georgia Tech where he contributed to the AutoRally autonomous driving platform and led embedded systems work—hands-on firmware and runstop box IoT integrations appear in his GitHub commits. Brian blends deep academic rigor with production-focused research, shipping perception and control tools for high-speed vehicle platforms and exploring commercialization of scaled AV testbeds. Based in Los Altos, he pairs an ECE undergrad from Carnegie Mellon and an MS in Computer Science with practical expertise in hardware-software interaction. Colleagues rely on him for bridging simulation-grade algorithms to real-world vehicle hardware and safety-critical embedded systems. He brings a pragmatic curiosity: comfortable moving between low-level firmware tweaks and high-level planning algorithms to make autonomous systems robust in the real world.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (7)
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embedded10
serial-communication10
sys10
arduino10
cprogramming-language9
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AutoRally/autorally
May 2016 - May 2019
Software for the AutoRally platform
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 184 commits, 51 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily involve modifications to the code used for a Teensy LC runstop box, likely responsible for the hardware and software interaction. The changes include button state logic adjustments and serial communication setup, implying a focus on the device's firmware and its interaction with external systems. These modifications are related to embedded systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), involving hardware-software interaction.
ignitionrosoccupancy-grid-mapyarpgazebo-simulator
AutoRally/autorally_platform_instructions
May 2016 - May 2019
Complete instructions to build your own AutoRally platform
Contributions:3 releases, 27 commits, 1 PR in 3 years
instructionsbuild-your-own
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