Christopher Thierauf
Research Engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Thierauf is a research engineer and roboticist based in Boston with nine years of experience bridging software engineering and electromechanical design, currently advancing deep-submergence robotics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He holds a PhD in human-robot interaction from Tufts, where he combined HRI research with hands-on robotics development and graduate teaching roles. Christopher has practical experience across firmware, 3D printing, and field-ready systems from co-op work to academic labs, enabling him to move concepts from prototypes to deployable oceanic platforms. An active open-source contributor (as @cst0), he brings a culture of reproducible tooling and shared code to research engineering. He’s comfortable working at the intersection of human factors and harsh-environment hardware—often translating nuanced user insights into robust electromechanical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human-Robot Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human-Robot Interaction at Tufts UniversityBachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
Github Skills (104)
ros10
face10
caffe9
pose9
human-pose-estimation9
opencv9
cpp9
openpose9
pose-estimation9
programming-tools9
computer-vision8
monorepo8
3d-models8
robotics8
representation-learning8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WIT-IEEE-MATE-ROV/auv
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Code for the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.
Contributions:122 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
roboticspythonautonomousreinforcement-learningvehicle
cst0/.config
May 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:79 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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