Emily Sturman
Graduate Research Assistant (Human Centered Robotics Lab)
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Sturman is a robotics-focused software engineer and PhD student at UT Austin with nine years of experience building systems at the intersection of human-centered robotics, perception, and controls. She contributes to humanoid and legged loco-manipulation research in the Human Centered Robotics Lab, having previously developed symmetry-aware reinforcement learning for quadrupeds and multipedal controllers for zero-gravity tasks. Her industry internships include full-stack and perception work—deploying LiDAR-based human detection and SAM2 segmentation for co-bots at Tutor Intelligence and building high-scale supportability tooling at Stripe. Emily blends academic rigor from the Turing Scholars program with practical product experience from Meta and startups, routinely moving ideas from simulation into deployed prototypes. Based in Austin, she’s equally comfortable composing control laws as she is integrating CV models into production stacks—a robot enthusiast who writes code that physically interacts with people and environments.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Lick-Wilmerding High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (18)
redux9
react-native-app9
react-native-web9
data-storage9
firebase9
sentry8
hosting8
trajectory-optimization8
react-native7
robotics7
storage7
expo7
react7
state-management6
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Creampelt/qpp-website
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Official website for Q++ at UT Austin, developed with GatsbyJS
Contributions:45 PRs, 50 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 4 months
gatsbyscsstypescript
SimpleSubs/mobile-app
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Source code for lunch-ordering app for Lick-Wilmerding High School; built with Expo and React Native, uses Redux for state management and Firebase for data storage and web hosting.
Contributions:2 releases, 138 commits, 66 PRs in 3 years 9 months
sentryexpo-clifirebase-firestoredata-storagestorage
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