Joshua Vander Hook
Planning Scientist, Rust Developer at Flight Science
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Vander Hook is a Planning Scientist and Rust developer with a PhD in Computer Science and 11 years building and deploying novel mobile robotic systems across space exploration, logistics, and defense. He leads teams that design distributed autonomy, multi-robot path planning, and millisecond-scale planning pipelines, pairing deep theoretical work in competitive online algorithms and graph optimization with production-grade systems engineering in Rust, C++, and Python. His career spans research leadership at JPL (including Mars-related autonomy and deep-space networking), principal engineering roles in mission planning for autonomous yards and aircraft, and recent work on AI-assisted airline route optimization. Known for squeezing massive speedups out of classic algorithms and building homegrown distributed logging/metrics, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic optimization to ship reliable, real-time systems. Based in Minneapolis, he also brings hands-on experience in adaptive sensing, nonlinear state estimation, and teaching/curriculum development for embedded vision platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Computer Science at Minnesota State University, MankatoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Robotics at University of Minnesota
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (109)
image-viewer10
websocket9
imlib29
x119
curl9
ldap9
keybase9
windows-subsystem-for-linux9
ftps8
ftp8
javascript8
command-line-tool8
sftp8
chat8
geography8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jodavaho/smartcd
Feb 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes in 5 years 11 months
jodavaho/kda-tools
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Allows you to do regression on game journals to determine effective loadouts.
Contributions:1 release, 84 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
regressioneffectiveto-dodeterminejournals
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