James Giller
Graduate Student Researcher
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Giller is a multidisciplinary robotics and transportation researcher with a decade of software engineering experience, currently pursuing a PhD in Transportation Technology and Policy at UC Davis. He blends hands-on robotics, sensor fusion, and computer vision work—from building interactive robot arms and palm-sized consumer robots to developing sensor evaluation tools for Jaguar Land Rover—with policy-oriented research on equitable climate mitigation and adaptation. At UC Davis he leads connected and autonomous vehicle efforts and contributes practical tooling (e.g., synthetic noise generation and Dynamic Occupancy Grid–based fusion) that has surfaced real-world ADAS issues. Comfortable moving between code, lab prototypes, and cross-cultural teams, he has a proven track record of mentoring engineers and shipping production-grade embedded and ROS-based systems. Based in Davis, California, he brings interdisciplinary thinking and empathic collaboration to projects aimed at a just transition to a green economy. An understated strength is his ability to translate low-level algorithmic insights into measurable policy and system-level impacts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Engineering Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Engineering Science at The University of OsakaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, First Class Honours (3.93 cumulative GPA), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, First Class Honours (3.93 cumulative GPA) at University College CorkDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Transportation Technology and Policy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Transportation Technology and Policy at Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
pcl10
computer-vision10
cpp10
point-cloud10
point-cloud-library9
ply9
ros-driver9
visual-studio-code-extension8
usb7
robot7
ros7
nodes5
pose5
robotics5
visual-studio4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JamesGiller/ifttt-ros
May 2017 - Jul 2018
A framework for integrating ROS systems with IFTTT.
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
roboticsros2iftttrosintegrating
JamesGiller/april_tag
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
aprilros-wrapperrostags
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