Jan Czarnowski
Perception Lead at Boston Dynamics
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Czarnowski is a perception and ML research leader with 11 years of experience building full-stack computer vision and perception systems for legged humanoid robots, currently leading Perception for Atlas at Boston Dynamics. He combines deep academic training (PhD, Imperial College) with hands-on engineering across research and production, progressing from robotics intern to Perception Lead while shipping on complex, real-world robotic platforms. Known for forging high-performing teams, he bridges reinforcement learning, embedded systems, and perception pipelines to close the gap between cutting-edge research and deployable autonomy. A pragmatic inventor, Jan’s background spans soft manipulators to RL-based manipulation and demonstrates a consistent focus on end-to-end system reliability under real-world constraints.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Imperial College LondonMaster's degree Robotics, Master's degree Robotics at Warsaw University of Technology
Github Skills (25)
slam10
cpp8
blender8
g2o8
urdf6
ros6
segmentation6
graph6
parser6
synthetic6
robotics6
rendering6
3d-reconstruction5
opengl5
computer-vision5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jczarnowski/DeepFactors
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Real-Time Probabilistic Dense Monocular SLAM Using Compact Code Representation
Contributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 6 months
jczarnowski/Pangolin
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
interactionrapid-developmentopenglrapidportable
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