Jared Strader
Assistant Professor at Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJared Strader is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oakland University with a decade of experience at the intersection of perception, decision-making, and scene understanding for robotic systems. He transitioned from MIT’s SPARK Lab—where he served as a postdoc and research scientist under Prof. Luca Carlone—to academia, bringing hands-on experience in perception-aware planning and autonomy. His PhD work at West Virginia University, augmented by a stint at NASA JPL, focused on building robust perception and navigation pipelines that powered a championship-winning sample-return robot. Jared combines rigorous theoretical research with practical systems development, having led software efforts that secured first place and significant prize funding in NASA competitions. Based in Rochester, Michigan, he blends aerospace and mechanical engineering training with mathematics to tackle real-world robotic challenges. He is known for translating complex research into deployed algorithms and mentoring students toward impactful, competition-tested solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aerospace Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aerospace Engineering at West Virginia UniversityBachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at Evangel University
Github Skills (9)
scene9
api7
graph6
python5
scene-graph5
cpp5
gnuplot3
scientific-visualization1
visualization1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jaredstrader/omnidirectional_calibration
May 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
wvu-irl/POMDPSolvers-MATLAB
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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