Christoffer Heckman
Associate Professor
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoffer Heckman is an associate professor and leader of the Autonomous Robots and Perception Group at the University of Colorado Boulder with 11 years of experience building models that let robots perceive and operate in the physical world. His work spans field robotics, perception, and rigorous validation of autonomous systems, informed by a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell. He has bridged academia and industry—contributing radar localization to Amazon Scout and developing multimodal driving models and validation tools at Zoox—bringing research ideas into real-world robotic platforms. Trained in dynamical systems and stochastic control, he applies analytical approximations to make complex physical and delay-prone systems tractable for sensing and autonomy. Based in Boulder, he combines deep theoretical grounding with hands-on system development for long-tail, safety-critical scenarios.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyPh.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University
English, German
Github Skills (59)
robotics10
imu10
abstraction10
abstraction-layer10
robot10
camera10
calibration10
raycasting10
pangolin10
interaction10
homography10
autonomous-robots10
stereo10
accelerometer10
gstreamer9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
arpg/SensorFusion
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 9 months
arpg/CVars
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
CVars is a cross-platform OpenGL Quake like console for changing program variables at runtime.
Contributions:24 commits, 12 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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