Eric Ward
Robotics Researcher at Nokia Bell Labs
Flemington, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Ward is a robotics researcher and software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building embedded systems, simulation, and ROS 2-based robotics platforms. He combines industrial R&D at Nokia Bell Labs with FDA-oriented embedded work at Key Tech and high-throughput data engineering exposure from Bloomberg, demonstrating a knack for reliable, safety-critical software across domains. A Computer Science graduate from RPI and Robotics MS student at the University of Michigan, he moves comfortably between low-level firmware, PC tooling, and distributed systems like Kafka. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex integrations and to harden systems for production use—skills honed by repeatedly shipping end-to-end projects in internship and research settings. Based in Flemington, NJ, he also tutors STEM topics, signaling a practical interest in teaching and clear technical communication.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Robotics, Master's degree, Robotics at University of MichiganBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
Github Skills (4)
game-development8
game-engine7
open-source6
godot4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
2GoodPhoU/expert-spoon
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
2GoodPhoU/Sabrina-Local-AI
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:74 pushes in 9 days
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