Luke Burks
Interactive Teaming Lead at Merlin
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Burks is an interactive teaming lead and research engineer with 11 years of experience translating autonomy research into deployed systems across aerospace and ground platforms. He specializes in decision making, state estimation, sensor fusion, and human-robot interaction, having led technical teams and programs at Aurora Flight Sciences and designed behavior, inference, and planning systems for autonomous vehicles at Optimus Ride. As a lecturer in MIT’s NEET program, he bridges cutting-edge research with hands-on student projects, and his PhD in Aerospace Engineering underpins a rigorous approach to probabilistic inference and cooperative autonomy. Now leading interactive teaming at Merlin in Boston, he combines academic depth with product-focused delivery—an uncommon mix that helps move autonomy from prototype to operational reality.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors Physics at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (8)
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julia2
decision-making2
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robotics2
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
COHRINT/POMDP-Experiments
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:110 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 2 years 2 months
questiondecisionobservablemarkovmarkov-decision-processes
clburks9/EasyPOMDP
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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