Joseph Lowman
Senior Machine Learning Engineer II at Cruise
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Lowman is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II with 11 years of hands-on experience building safety-critical robotics and autonomy systems, currently advancing onboard behavior and fallback capabilities at Cruise. He combines an MIT BS in Mechanical Engineering and a University of Michigan MS in Robotics with deep practical work across motion planning, sensor fusion, and real-time control—from dual-EKF localization tuning to implementing bicycle-model simulators and efficient onboard planners. Joseph’s background spans small-team startups to large autonomy organizations, giving him a knack for shipping robust, production-grade code that bridges perception, prediction, and planning. Notably, he has repeatedly owned end-to-end features that require careful data mining and quality filtering to make learning-based behaviors safe for deployment.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering with Robotics Concentration, Mechanical Engineering with Robotics Concentration at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Robotics, Master's degree, Robotics at University of Michigan
Github Skills (4)
linux5
arduino-library5
adafruit4
macos4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jdlowman2/rl4robotics
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 12 pushes in 6 months
robintzeng/EECS568_team_14_open_vins
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
An open source platform for visual-inertial navigation research.
Contributions:37 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
inertialvisual-inertialnavigation
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