Kevin Nickels
Associate Professor
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKevin Nickels is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science at Trinity University with 12+ years of academic experience and deep expertise in electrical engineering, robotics, and computer vision. He teaches courses from circuits and digital logic to embedded systems and mechatronics while directing senior design instruction and advancing active, design-oriented learning. Kevin’s applied research spans manipulator calibration, hand-eye coordination, visual tracking, and camera calibration, with notable sabbatical work at JPL, NASA JSC, and UT Austin on space and underwater robotics. He has published extensively in journals and conferences and has a proven track record of improving robotic perception and manipulation accuracy in field-relevant systems. Based in San Antonio, he combines hands-on engineering from industry co-op roots with rigorous robotics research and practical system deployments.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer and Electrical Engineering, B.S., Computer and Electrical Engineering at Purdue UniversityPh. D., Electrical Engineering (Robotics), Ph. D., Electrical Engineering (Robotics) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (59)
rviz10
rosbag10
modular9
visualization9
user-manual9
ros9
gazebo-simulator8
x-plane8
yarp8
latex8
robot8
robot-simulator8
player8
ignition8
robotics8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NickelsLab/Player-Stage-Manual
Aug 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:7 releases, 223 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 4 months
stageroboticsrobotrobot-simulatorsimulator
knickels/OLDNickelsLab
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes in 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.