Kunal Shah
Robotics Engineer at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKunal Shah is a robotics engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building motion, control, and optimization systems for real-world robots, from custom quadrotors and ground vehicles to industrial manipulators and autonomous mobile platforms. He holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from UC San Diego and Stanford, and has applied his research in extreme environments like Antarctica for wildlife surveying and in production settings at companies such as Dexterity, Figure, and now NVIDIA. Kunal blends rigorous theory—differential geometry and convex optimization for collision avoidance—with practical software and hardware skills in ROS, MATLAB/Simulink, and embedded mechatronics. Known for “asking robots nicely not to hit stuff,” he also has experience leading drone teams and delivering deployable systems that bridge research prototypes and scalable product applications.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, High School High School/Secondary Diploma Programs at Loma Linda AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (42)
robotics10
drones10
pathfinding10
planning10
ros10
network-analysis9
mavlink9
autopilot9
px49
graph-algorithms9
graph-analysis9
python9
rover9
collision-detection9
collision9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
k2shah/wadl
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
A python package for planning surveys over large areas using one or more UAV (Unpersoned Aerial Vehicle).
Contributions:6 releases, 6 reviews, 415 commits in 3 years 2 months
multi-agent-systemsroboticspythonmulti-agent-planningsurveys
StanfordMSL/msl_quad
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Research quadrotor platform (software & hardware) developed at Stanford Multi-Robot Systems Lab
Contributions:10 reviews, 117 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 8 months
roboticsstanfordrobotmulti-robot-systemsmulti-robot
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