Gene Merewether
Member Of Technical Staff at Generalist
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGene Merewether is a Member of Technical Staff with a decade of experience building robotics, embedded, and perception software across aerospace and commercial robotics teams. He has driven trajectory generation, mapping, and flight software for projects ranging from the Mars Helicopter at JPL to autonomy and perception work at Boston Dynamics and Zoox, and contributed backend TSDF/ESDF handling to the well-known voxblox mapping library. Comfortable across embedded C/C++ and higher-level system design, he has implemented logging and buffer management for flight frameworks (nasa/fprime) and led end-to-end behavior cloning for agricultural manipulation at Maniro AI. Trained in robotics systems development at Carnegie Mellon and originally grounded in experimental work from Princeton, he blends academic rigor with hands-on prototyping—evident from a Luce Scholar project that restored a paralyzed musician’s ability to sing. Based in Cambridge, MA, Gene brings a pragmatic focus on data management and sensor-to-action pipelines that enable reliable autonomous systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Robotics Systems Development, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Masters of Robotics Systems Development, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityChemistry, Prosthetics and 3D Printing, Chemistry, Prosthetics and 3D Printing at Princeton University
Korean, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
embedded10
c-language10
oft10
3d-mapping10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
serialization9
data-serialization9
robotics9
buffering9
file-handling9
buffer9
object-oriented-programming8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ethz-asl/voxblox
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
A library for flexible voxel-based mapping, mainly focusing on truncated and Euclidean signed distance fields.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gene's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `voxblox` library's capabilities related to the handling of Tango TSDF data. This involved the implementation of Protobuf deserialization for `tsdf2` related structures. Additionally, the user worked on enabling the conversion of Tango TSDF data to ESDF, demonstrating an understanding of the library's internal data structures. These changes improve the library's ability to process and utilize data from different sources.
roboticsvoxbloxfocusingsdfsigned
nasa/fprime
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Gene contributed to the flight software framework, specifically integrating a buffer accumulator and logger component. Their work involved modifying header and source files related to buffer management, logging, and file handling. The commits included code changes for opening, writing to, and closing log files, as well as setting logging states. This indicates a focus on data management and storage within the embedded systems environment.
flightfprimeraspberry-picppreal-time
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