Jerry Pratt
Chief Technology Officer at Pensacola Mess Hall
Pensacola, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJerry Pratt is a veteran robotics leader and CTO who has spent three decades building bipedal humanoid robots and the organizations that create them, including leading the IHMC Robotics Lab to a top finish in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. He combines deep research pedigree (PhD-level work at MIT and 20 years at IHMC) with hands-on startup execution, most recently founding Persona AI to bring humanoids into practical use. Jerry favors decentralized decision-making and autonomous teams that can assemble complex systems from many moving parts, and he enjoys scaling high-performance teams as much as the machines they build. A serial founder and seasoned CTO, he has repeatedly bridged cutting-edge research and product-grade engineering to push humanoids toward “prime time.”
16 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (34)
webots10
robotics10
gazebosim10
controller10
trajectory-generation10
java10
dynamics10
robot10
robotics-simulation10
ros10
momentum10
optimization10
affinity9
lockless7
jsinterop6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ihmcrobotics/ihmc-open-robotics-software
Jan 2010 - Apr 2022
Robotics software featuring legged locomotion algorithms and a momentum-based controller core with optimization. Supporting software for world-class robots including humanoids, running birds, exoskeletons, mechs and more.
Contributions:2640 commits in 12 years 5 months
robotics-simulationcontrollerlocomotionwalkingihmc
ihmcrobotics/iCub
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 7 months
roboticscontrollersimulationssimulationrobot
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