Jeffrey Bingham
Staff Roboticist at OpenAI
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Bingham is a Staff Roboticist with 13 years of experience applying classical, nonlinear, modern, and machine-learning control to hard realtime robotic systems and human biomechanics. He holds a PhD in Bioengineering from Georgia Tech and advanced mechanical engineering training from MIT, blending rigorous modeling with hands-on implementation. Jeffrey has driven long-term robotics efforts at Everyday Robots and Google and now leads robot control work at OpenAI, focusing on physical modeling of complex systems. An active contributor to the Bullet Physics SDK, he has enhanced inverse dynamics, Jacobian calculations, and shared-memory interfaces to improve simulation fidelity for robotics and ML. Known for bridging theoretical control with production systems, he often tackles under-the-hood simulation issues that unlock more accurate robot behaviors.
13 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Idaho State University
Github Skills (8)
simulations10
simulation10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
kinematics10
shared-memory9
robotics9
python8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bulletphysics/bullet3
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily focused on enhancing the shared memory interface for the Bullet Physics SDK. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of inverse dynamics calculations, incorporating world gravity for accurate physics simulations. They also contributed to the calculateJacobian command, ensuring the correct jacobian calculations and adding features for fixed/floating bases, thereby expanding the shared memory capabilities. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the existing pybullet module for better integration.
pybulletbullet-physicssimulationsimulatorreal-time
bingjeff/trex-gym
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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