Chris Raabe
Board Member at ACSL Inc.
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Raabe is a technology leader and board member with 12 years of experience building and commercializing autonomous aircraft systems, currently serving as Global CTO and Board Member at ACSL, Japan’s leading drone manufacturer. He combines deep academic expertise—a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo—with hands-on experience designing autopilots, sensors, PCBs and flight-control simulations from his time at Boeing and university labs. At ACSL he leads a diverse engineering organization of ~50, drives product and geographic expansion into Southeast Asia, India and the US, and manages complex international supplier and government-funded programs. His technical interests span adaptive failure-tolerant control, SLAM, sensor fusion and autonomous systems, and he uniquely blends research-grade algorithms with practical industrialization and strategic investment work. Based in Bend, Oregon, he’s comfortable operating at the intersection of cutting-edge autonomy research and the commercial realities of scaling drone platforms.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering: Systems, MS, Electrical Engineering: Systems at University of MichiganBS, Aerospace Engineering, BS, Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Tokyo
English, Japanese
Github Skills (3)
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Github contributions (5)
ctraabe/UTGimbal
Mar 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
ctraabe/SerialComms
Apr 2014 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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