Ethan Gordon
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Gordon is a postdoctoral researcher and roboticist with 13 years of experience bridging human-robot interaction, VR, and applied machine learning across leading labs and industry teams. He completed a PhD in HRI at the University of Washington and now works in the GRASP Lab at UPenn, after research stints at DAIRLab, Honda Research Institute, and Oculus where he focused on varifocal displays and distortion correction. Ethan’s work spans model-based reinforcement learning for dexterous manipulation to shared-autonomy systems and practical prototyping of hardware/firmware for connectivity and immersive systems. He combines rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering—having shipped prototypes and led mentorship projects that translate complex models into usable systems. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs deep technical grounding from Princeton EE with a knack for making perceptual and control insights actionable in real-world robotic and VR experiments.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering Human-Robot Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering Human-Robot Interaction at University of WashingtonHigh School, High School at Illinois Mathematics and Science AcademyElectrical Engineering Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering Engineering Physics at Princeton University
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Github Skills (59)
robotics10
robot-control10
kinematics10
reinforcement-learning10
dynamics10
robot10
dqn10
perception10
pybullet10
motion-planning10
ros10
optimization10
artificial-intelligence9
ada9
q-learning9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
personalrobotics/jaco_hardware
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
ros_control hardware interface for the Kinova JACO arm
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 10 months
roboticsros-controlhardware-controlroshardware
personalrobotics/bite_selection_package
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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