Dennis Wai
Robotics Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDennis Wai is a robotics software engineer with 12 years of experience building flight and autonomy software at NASA JPL, where he has contributed to Mars 2020 Perseverance flight software, tactical rover operations, and integration tools for the Adaptive Caching Assembly. He combines rigorous controls and estimation expertise from an MS at UC Berkeley with hands-on mechatronics and C/C++ development for multi-DOF manipulators and unmanned surface vehicles. At JPL he’s led software for integration and testing, refactored mobility stacks, and helped shape mission design decisions through workspace analysis that influenced the Mars Sample Return approach. Known for translating advanced simulation and state-estimation techniques into robust, testable flight code, he thrives at the intersection of research-grade algorithms and mission-critical engineering. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings a proven track record of turning complex spacecraft and robotic requirements into reliable operational systems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.92, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.92 at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dwai213/SMC_quadcopter
May 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
dwai213/website
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 64 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 9 months
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