Keenan Albee
Assistant Professor at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolKeenan Albee is an Assistant Professor and autonomy researcher with 11 years of experience designing algorithms that enable robots to operate in extreme, unstructured environments such as the Moon, microgravity, and underwater. He blends optimal control, reinforcement learning, and motion planning with perception-aware designs to produce environment-aware, real-world-ready autonomy. Prior to academia he led robotics research at NASA JPL’s Maritime and Multi-Agent Autonomy Group and completed a Ph.D. in Autonomous Systems at MIT, bringing a strong systems-engineering mindset to algorithm development. His work emphasizes safe, robust planning under uncertainty and kinodynamic constraints, informed by frequent hands-on experimentation with spaceflight-relevant platforms. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs mission-focused research with practical engineering experience across NASA centers and industry, and often tackles problems where conventional planners fail.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Autonomous Systems, Ph.D. Autonomous Systems at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFranklin High SchoolB.S. Mechanical Engineering magna cum laude, B.S. Mechanical Engineering magna cum laude at Columbia University
Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
robot10
robotics9
simulation4
simulations4
ros4
python3
mpc3
physics3
rviz2
mujoco2
physics-engine2
javascript2
viewcontroller1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
albee/a-brief-guide-to-astrobee
Oct 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years 4 months
albee/parallel-park
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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