Hatem Darweesh
Senior Motion Planning Engineer at Woven by Toyota
Nagoya, Japan
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Top SchoolHatem Darweesh is a Senior Motion Planning Engineer with a decade of focused experience building autonomous driving and robotics systems across industry and academia. He co-founded NRG Solutions, led autonomous driving teams at ZMP in Tokyo, and developed OpenPlanner and ASSURE mapping tools while pursuing PhD and postdoctoral work at Nagoya University. His expertise spans the full autonomy stack with a specialty in planning, sensor fusion, and HD-map automation, and he has a track record of integrating research-grade solutions into practical systems and collaborations with Japanese industry partners. As founder and CEO of ZATITECH he pushed ASSURE toward one of the most automated HD road-network mapping pipelines globally, supporting Autoware and CARLA adoption. At Boeing he applied robotics planning to factory automation, and he now advances motion planning at Woven by Toyota, blending academic rigour with product-focused engineering. A hands-on polyglot in control, perception and mapping, he often bridges simulation, open-source tools and field deployments to close the loop between research and real-world autonomy.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science (Robot Control), Excellent, Master's degree, Computer Science (Robot Control), Excellent at Ain Shams UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology at Nagoya University
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (67)
ros10
autonomous-driving10
robotics10
autonomous-vehicles10
editing10
intel9
sdk9
computer-vision9
hardware9
payment-methods9
imu8
in-app-purchase8
desktop8
lidar8
simulator7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hatem-darweesh/op_bridge
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
OpenPlanner ROS based bridge for CARLA Simulator and Scenario Runner
Contributions:14 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
roboticsros2scenariobridgecarla
hatem-darweesh/common
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 16 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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