Jennifer King
Robotics Engineer at Berkshire Grey
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer King is a robotics engineer and Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University with 13 years of experience applying planning and manipulation research to real robots and commercial automation. She specializes in planning for manipulation in clutter using nonprehensile interactions, demonstrating algorithms on HERB and adapting those planners for planetary rovers through a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. At Berkshire Grey she brings research-grade manipulation and AI techniques to large-scale fulfillment systems, bridging lab prototypes and production robotics. Her background spans research scientist and software engineering roles at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, giving her deep systems and fielded-robotics experience beyond academia. Based in Pennsylvania, she combines rigorous academic training with practical deployment know-how and a focus on expanding robot-environment interaction capabilities.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster’s Degree, Robotics, Master’s Degree, Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (35)
robotics10
robot-control10
perception10
motion-planning10
ros10
artificial-intelligence9
python9
ompl8
chomp7
urdf7
occlusion6
linux6
algorithms6
rviz5
collision5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
personalrobotics/tsr
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
Python Library for using Task Space Regions
Contributions:35 commits in 1 year 8 months
pythonmotion-planningtask-space-regions
personalrobotics/benchmarks
Oct 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
benchmarkingbenchmarkperformancebenchmarksmeasure
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