José Sarmiento
Associate Professor
Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolJosé Sarmiento is an Associate Professor and robotics researcher based in Málaga with 16 years of experience bridging academic research and hands-on engineering in mobile robotics and mechatronics. He holds a doctorate with European distinction and has progressed from research engineer to senior roles and a long-standing position at Universidad de Málaga where he led projects on telepresence, autonomous navigation, docking, and human-centered robotic interfaces. An active contributor to the MRPT open-source robotics toolkit, he has implemented utility features and foundational face-detection classes that support perception and developer use of the library. José combines rigorous academic credentials with practical system-building—designing robust architectures, sensor-driven warnings, and autonomy behaviors—that emphasize user safety and real-world deployment. Unusually for an academic, he maintains deep low-level C++ development experience alongside his teaching and research leadership.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorado, Ingeniería informática, Sobresaliente Cum laude, mención Europea, Doctorado, Ingeniería informática, Sobresaliente Cum laude, mención Europea at Universidad de Málaga
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
computer-vision10
robotics10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MRPT/mrpt
Jun 2010 - May 2015
:zap: The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:José primarily focused on adding and fixing code related to utility functions and features within the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) library. Their contributions include fixing external use issues for the CLog class and implementing a new vectorFromTextFile method. They also made improvements to existing code and initiated the development of face detection capabilities, implementing the foundational classes.
robot-programmingroboticsmobile-robotspoint-cloudsrobot-framework
jotaraul/uma_robotics_2023
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Working repository for the Robotics subject at the University of Málaga (2021-2023 edition)
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 months
robotics-simulationroboticssubjectautonomous-robotsros
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