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.
11 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 (48)
autoencoder10
probabilistic10
slam10
pangolin9
raycasting9
cpp8
interaction8
g2o8
robotics8
pytorch8
feature-extraction8
graph-algorithms7
constraint-programming7
graph7
deep-learning7
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
pytorchreal-timerepresentationcompactautoencoder
jczarnowski/Pangolin
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
interactionrapid-developmentopenglrapidportable
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