Buck Babich
Senior Robotics R&D Manager at NVIDIA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBuck Babich is a Senior Robotics R&D Manager based in Pittsburgh with 17 years of experience blending research-grade physics, high-performance computing, and robot control to deliver production-ready motion generation for manipulation and legged systems. At NVIDIA he has progressed from GPU research and architecture—contributing to RT Core and Volta SM design—to leading teams that build simulation, model-based control, and sim-to-real software for robotic platforms. He pairs deep analytical skills (PhD in Physics) and hands-on systems work—C++ code gen from SymPy, Jetson integrations, and hardware bring-up—to bridge algorithms and real-world robots. Known for shipping both low-level silicon features and higher-level robotics stacks, he brings a rare cross-domain fluency that accelerates sim-to-real transfer and high-performance motion optimization.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics and Mathematics, BA, Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Boston University
Github Skills (21)
opencl10
infiniband10
lattice10
mpi10
petsc10
hip10
gpu10
multi-gpu10
cuda10
urdf8
moveit8
quaternions8
gazebosim7
robotics7
ignition7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rbabich/moveit2_tutorials
May 2024 - Jun 2024
A sphinx-based centralized documentation repo for MoveIt 2
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rbabich/quaternion-conventions
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
An overview of different quaternion implementations and their chosen order: x-y-z-w or w-x-y-z?
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
implementationsquaternionchosen
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