Brian Ichter
Co-Founder at Physical Intelligence
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ichter is a robotics-focused entrepreneur and researcher with 11 years of experience building fast, robust algorithms to enable real-world autonomous systems. As Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence and a former Research Scientist at Google, he specializes in sampling-based motion planning, GPU-parallel algorithms, uncertainty- and perception-aware planning, and learned accelerations for kinodynamic systems. His PhD work at Stanford combined theoretical analysis, conditional variational autoencoders for learned sampling distributions, and experimental quadrotor validation—bridging theory, ML, and hardware. He has a strong aerospace foundation from Stanford and UVA, and a track record of shipping high-performance research code and demonstrations. Notably, he has pushed planning into learned latent spaces and scaled planning computations on GPUs, making probabilistic, perception-driven planning tractable in real time. Based in the Bay Area, he blends deep academic rigor with product-oriented execution in startups and large tech research environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Engineering Physics at University of VirginiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (12)
sublime-text9
sublime-text-plugin9
sublime9
textmate8
google7
machine-learning7
ai6
latex5
planning4
robotics4
julia3
motion-planning2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brianichter/brianichter.github.io
Jan 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
StanfordASL/LearnedSamplingDistributions
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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