Kyle Stachowicz
Student Researcher at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Stachowicz is a PhD student and researcher at UC Berkeley specializing in the intersection of motion planning, control, and machine learning with a focus on challenging robot-environment interactions like autonomous driving. With 11 years of hands-on experience spanning academic labs and industry internships at Argo AI, Aurora, NVIDIA, Uber ATG, and Argo, he blends theoretical work in stochastic optimal control with practical systems engineering. He has implemented low-level real-time software and developed long-horizon planning algorithms, and his open-source contributions include refactoring radio communication for RoboJackets’ RoboCup stack to eliminate race conditions and improve maintainability. Based in Berkeley, he brings systems-level rigor to learning-driven control problems and a track record of shipping robust, timing-sensitive code across embedded and autonomy stacks.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDavis Senior High School
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
telecommunication10
cprogramming-language10
communications10
multithreading10
networking9
protobuffer9
protobuf9
robotics9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RoboJackets/robocup-software
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Georgia Tech RoboJackets Software for the RoboCup Small Size League
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 455 commits, 237 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on refactoring the radio communication system within the repository. Their work involved fixing race conditions and refactoring the code to use a queue or a deque for managing reverse packets. This involved modifications to the `Radio.hpp`, `USBRadio.cpp`, `SimRadio.cpp` and adding a `NetworkRadio` to facilitate data transfer, indicating the implementation of new communication protocols. Furthermore, they improved code maintainability.
roboticssmall-sizerobojacketsgeorgialeague
robotrs/rust-wpilib
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:56 commits, 12 PRs, 39 pushes in 5 months
rustwpilib
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