Joe Watson
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oxford
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoe Watson is a postdoctoral researcher in robotics and machine learning with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and industry applications. He has advanced autonomous systems and intelligent robotics through PhD work at TU Darmstadt and research roles at DFKI and the Oxford Robotics Institute, plus an internship at DeepMind. Joe brings hands-on software and systems engineering experience from surgical robotics at CMR Surgical and automation projects using C++ and PLC/vision systems. He combines rigorous experimental research with product-minded engineering, having led complex interdisciplinary projects from lab prototypes to deployed systems. Outside core research, he has a long-standing design and production background, from artistic direction of large events to freelance visual design, which informs his human-centered approach to robot interaction.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng. BA) Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng. BA) Engineering at University of CambridgeBridgnorth 6th FormOldbury Wells School
English, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (37)
robotics9
trajectory-optimization9
deep-learning8
i2c8
reinforcement-learning8
machine-learning8
hardware8
caffe8
simulation8
dynamics7
urdf6
ros6
jax6
code-generation6
inference6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JoeMWatson/input-inference-for-control
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Input Inference for Control (i2c), a control-as-inference framework for optimal control
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
i2cinferenceapproximate-inferencecontrol-as-inferencerobotics
JoeMWatson/blog
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
online journal
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
journal
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