Guy Scher
University Lecturer at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolGuy Scher is a university lecturer and robotics researcher with eight years of professional experience and a Ph.D. from Cornell University focused on verifying safety and automatically synthesizing controls and paths for autonomous systems. He combines deep academic expertise in robotics and autonomy with a decade-plus background as a controls engineer leading teams in industry, giving him a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to control design. Based in Israel’s Haifa District, he teaches Control Design at Technion while bringing research-grade methods for safety assurance into the classroom. His work bridges formal verification and practical control synthesis, aiming to produce controllers that are both certifiable and deployable on real robots. A detail that sets him apart is his track record of moving from hands-on embedded and security-camera software to leading control engineering teams before transitioning to robotics research, which informs his emphasis on implementable, performance-driven solutions.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics at Cornell University
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Github Skills (52)
robotics10
verification10
gaussian-processes9
drake9
optimization9
gaussian9
python8
experimental-design8
ide7
robot7
hyperparameter-tuning7
anaconda6
generalization6
language-server-protocol6
github6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sguysc/sguysc.github.io
Apr 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:24 pushes in 4 years 1 month
sguysc/Gaussian-Sum-Filter-EKF
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
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