Jeffrey Ichnowski
Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Ichnowski is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute with 13 years of experience bridging academic research and startup engineering. He completed a PhD in computational robotics and a postdoc at UC Berkeley, then translated that research into product-focused roles as CTO and Chief Scientist at Wishlife. His background spans leadership in web technology and architecture at SuccessFactors through to cutting-edge robotics research at Berkeley, giving him a rare mix of scalable systems and robot autonomy expertise. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on startup product experience, often thinking about how perception and control research can be shipped in real systems. Notably, his career moves suggest a talent for moving between long-term research and immediate engineering impact. He keeps his public profiles deliberately low-maintenance, so some current work may be under the radar.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc Robotics, Postdoc Robotics at University of California, BerkeleyJapanese Language & History, Japanese Language & History at 国際基督教大学 (ICU)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Robotics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jeffi/jeffi.github.io
Oct 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
UNC-Robotics/mpt
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Motion Planning Templates creates fast, parallel, robot-specific motion planners.
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 9 months
plannersroboticsmpcparallelmotion
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