Luis Torres
Robotics Software Engineer at Intrinsic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Torres is a robotics software engineer with 17 years of industry experience, currently building advanced robotics at Intrinsic in San Francisco while pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at UNC Chapel Hill focused on algorithmic motion planning for medical robotics. He has a strong track record at Waymo and Bluepoint Games and contributed significant algorithmic improvements to the widely used Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL), notably refactoring and optimizing RRT* and extending cost mechanisms across planners. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he brings deep backend and algorithm expertise to large-scale robotic systems and safety-critical planning. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate theoretical planning advances into practical, high-performance implementations used in open-source and commercial projects.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
pathfinding10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
motion-planning10
data-structure10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ompl/ompl
Jan 2013 - May 2014
The Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Algorithm Implementer
Back-end Developer & Algorithm ImplementerContributions:114 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily focused on enhancing the capabilities of the RRTstar planner within the Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL) repository. Their contributions included adding and modifying methods to check for symmetry in state spaces and interpolation. They implemented a generalized cost mechanism, refactored RRTstar, and made optimizations. The user also adjusted PRM and TRRT planners for changes to the cost mechanism.
roboticsmotionomplplanningmotion-planning
giogadi/PortPlacement
Jun 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
placementsurgical
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