Summary
Kenny Shaw is a PhD student in Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University with 11 years of hands-on experience in robotics research and development. He focuses on dexterous manipulation and learning from human video under Prof. Deepak Pathak, and has a strong background in multi-agent systems, human-robot interaction, and safety from work at Georgia Tech and as a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar. Kenny combines practical systems skills—Unity3D, MATLAB, Robotarium simulations, OpenCV, and real-time control—with research rigor, contributing to frameworks like STRATA for heterogeneous robot team optimization. He’s bridged academia and applied projects from MentorPal’s NLP-driven interactive mentors to high-school robotics leadership, demonstrating an unusual blend of large-team simulation work and low-level control expertise. Based in Atlanta, he maintains an updated portfolio at kennyshaw.net that highlights both published research and toolchain implementations.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Hopewell Valley Regional School District
Princeton Day School
MIT Launch Summer, MIT Launch Summer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD in Robotics Computer Science, PhD in Robotics Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology