Marko Budisic
Supervisor, Data-Driven Systems
Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarko Budisic is a senior technical leader and hands-on engineer who transforms ambiguous, high-stakes problems into auditable prototypes that de-risk product decisions in regulated industries. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and 13+ years across academia and industry, he leads R&D in robotics, autonomy, and AI-assisted workflows—bridging hardware, software, and data from simulation and digital twins to fielded inspection systems. He emphasizes practical impact: reducing expert burden, improving reliability, and making complex processes observable rather than pursuing technology for its own sake. Marko excels at translating operator pain points into technical requirements and experimental evidence into clear trade-offs, influencing through working systems and rigorous documentation rather than formal authority. His toolkit spans control and estimation, signal processing, uncertainty-aware models, ROS2, Python/C#, and modern ML workflows, with deep experience mentoring and building interdisciplinary teams. Not obvious from titles: he specializes in simulation-to-real techniques that accelerate progress when access to physical systems is limited, a recurring advantage in his industrial deployments.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Eng., Electrical Engineering, Dipl.-Eng., Electrical Engineering at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
English, Croatian
Github Skills (53)
julia9
monorepo9
numerical-analysis8
science8
numerical7
numerical-integration7
programming-language7
manifold7
machine-learning7
derivative7
django-rest-framework7
django7
python7
creative-commons7
numerical-computing6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mbudisic/Continuous-Flows
May 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
mbudisic/koopman
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:114 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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