Kourosh Darvish
Staff Scientist at Acceleration Consortium
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKourosh Darvish is a Staff Scientist with nine years of experience advancing robot learning, shared autonomy, and lab automation at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, control, and decision-making. Currently at the Acceleration Consortium and affiliated with the University of Toronto and Vector Institute, he develops foundation-model-driven manipulation and interactive systems to accelerate materials and therapy discovery while embedding safety, ethics, and sustainability. His PhD in Bioengineering & Robotics and postdoctoral work at IIT and U of T focused on human-robot collaboration, motion prediction, humanoid teleoperation, and ergonomics, with contributions to European projects and the ANA Avatar XPRIZE. Kourosh pairs imagination with pragmatic, hands-on engineering—he routinely learns new domains to deliver deployable solutions, from ECG classification early in his career to self-driving lab applications today. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor and applied impact, aiming to make robotic assistance both trustworthy and practically transformative for scientific workflows.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), ENGINEERING, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), ENGINEERING at K. N. Toosi University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering and Robotics at University of GenoaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), ENGINEERING, Master of Science (M.Sc.), ENGINEERING at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian, Italian
Github Skills (76)
python10
deep-learning10
build-process10
simplify10
robotics10
autonomous-robots10
data-science10
dynamics10
tensorflow10
simulation10
pytorch10
gazebosim10
machine-learning10
robot10
yarp10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ami-iit/element_human-action-intention-recognition
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:130 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
robotology/walking-teleoperation
Dec 2018 - May 2022
Software related to walking and teleoperation.
Contributions:4 releases, 107 reviews, 364 commits in 3 years 5 months
teleoperationwalking
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