Jose Rincon
Senior Project Manager AI & Robotics Division at University of California, Merced
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Rincon is a robotics-focused project manager and PhD-trained researcher with 17 years of experience turning cutting-edge R&D in mobile autonomy into deployable systems for industry and government. Currently at Siemens he combines market analysis, stakeholder management and agile project execution with deep technical roots in SLAM, ROS, LIDAR/IMU integration and reinforcement learning from prior roles as an R&D scientist and robotics engineer. He has led cross-functional teams, founded and scaled STEM outreach programs reaching hundreds of K–12 students, and co-founded a nonprofit where he handled finance and strategy—an uncommon blend of technical leadership and community impact. Comfortable in Python, C++ and ROS, he also brings hands-on experience building perception and semantic-mapping solutions for autonomous vehicles and industrial robots. Based in California, Jose pairs academic rigor with practical delivery, often translating research prototypes into production-ready automation projects.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, robotics., Master of Science - MS, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, robotics. at ENIBBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio GaravitoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Mobile Robots, Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, algorithms., Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Mobile Robots, Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, algorithms. at University of California, Merced
Spanish, English, French, German
Github Skills (79)
cms10
python10
automation10
orchestration10
markdown10
scheduler10
site-generator10
rust10
content-management-system10
data-science10
static-site-generator10
blog-engine10
tera10
machine-learning10
data-engineering9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jlricon/semantic-scholar-ops
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 20 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 1 month
jlricon/rust-matmul
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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