Catherine Pavlov
Senior Mechanical Engineer at Collaborative Robotics
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCatherine Pavlov is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with nine years of experience turning research-grade robotics into field-ready systems, from PhD work at Carnegie Mellon to hardware roles at JPL and Collaborative Robotics. She specializes in mobility and resilience—teaching rovers to traverse harsh terrain, recover from failures, and even borrowing cockroach-inspired leg concepts for steep-climb prototypes. At JPL she contributed to Mars Helicopter hardware and deployable orbital structures, and her field robots have mapped volcanic fissures and excavated Atacama soils. Catherine blends rapid prototyping, embedded systems experience, and rigorous academic research to solve practical autonomy challenges, and she’s as comfortable iterating mechanical frames as she is integrating control and sensing for real-world missions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of TechnologyPhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMenlo School
English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (5)
ignition6
agile5
robotics5
python4
testing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robomechanics/MiniRHex
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
pavlovs-cat/MIMOcontrolslab
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:30 pushes in 11 days
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