Elliot Herring
AI ML Project Manager at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolElliot Herring is an AI/ML project manager and software engineer with a decade of experience building robotics and medical-device software, currently leading AI/ML projects at UTHealth Houston. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rice University where he developed transformer-based visuomotor models, contributed C++ and Python libraries for constrained motion planning in surgical robotics, and managed cluster resources with Kubernetes and Proxmox. Elliot has hands-on systems experience from embedded C++ firmware for a widely downloaded emergency ventilator to perception and motion-planning work at X (formerly Google X), bridging research and production. He publishes and maintains open-source tooling that integrates learned priors with optimization workflows and has presented at IROS and other conferences. Outside engineering, he’s a photographer, pianist, and avid cyclist—an operator who pairs technical depth with practical product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Rice UniversityHigh School, Mechatronics Engineering, 11, High School, Mechatronics Engineering, 11 at Crescent SchoolHonors Graduate of Alaska Mountaineering, Mountaineering, Honors Graduate of Alaska Mountaineering, Mountaineering at National Outdoor Leadership School
English, French
Github Skills (34)
mocap10
ompl9
minecraft9
motion-planning9
moveit9
pybullet8
ros8
robotics8
trajectory-generation8
shortcuts8
combine7
arduino7
swiftui6
siri-shortcuts6
manipulation6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apollobvm/apollobvm
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Main repository for ApolloBVM Arduino code and libraries.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 52 commits in 1 year 4 months
arduino
th3rring/bibtexes
May 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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