Lucas Chen
Research Assistant at CoMMA Lab
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Chen is a robotics-focused research engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience developing robust decision-making, perception, and motion-planning systems for fast, real-world platforms from soft growing robots to autonomous race karts and space manipulators. At Purdue and in labs like CoRAL and CoMMA he pairs deep RL, efficient state formulations, and computer vision to tackle highly nonlinear tasks where no single optimal solution exists. He has led software for an autonomous EVGrandPrix kart, contributed RL exploration research (IROS 2023), and built fault-tolerant behavior trees and trajectory generators for the Archinaut One program. Lucas also explores compilers and niche language design (notably Forth), reflecting a taste for low-level thinking that informs his systems work. Based in West Lafayette, he blends academic rigor with practical deployment experience across industry internships and high-impact student projects.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Irvington High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Purdue University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (69)
simulator10
executable10
detector10
robotics9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
computer-vision9
reinforcement-learning9
ai8
modular8
clang8
python8
deep-learning8
c118
visual-recognition8
segmentation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Reschivon/movForth
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Compiler for the Forth language using LLVM
Contributions:212 commits, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 5 months
compilersclangcompilercompile-time-meta-programmingexecutable
Reschivon/jForth
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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