Matei Ciocarlie
Chief Science Officer at Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatei Ciocarlie is a roboticist and Chief Science Officer with 12+ years designing intelligent systems for human environments, combining academic rigor as an associate professor at Columbia with industry leadership at Tangent Robotics. His work spans autonomous and human-in-the-loop manipulation, shared autonomy, teleoperation, assistive robotics, and novel robotic hand design that shifts grasp stability from computation to mechanics. A long-time contributor to reliable mobile manipulator capabilities and the ROS ecosystem, he focuses on sensing-driven control using tactile, proprioceptive, and range data to make robots robust in unstructured, human-centric settings. Trained with a Ph.D. from Columbia and experience at Google and Willow Garage, he blends deep research, open-source impact, and product-minded engineering to move laboratory ideas toward real-world deployment.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Columbia UniversityPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Github Skills (13)
simulation10
lists10
ros10
simulator10
detector6
robotics6
tabletop5
react4
python3
database2
3d-models2
databases1
sql1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ros-interactive-manipulation/tabletop_object_perception
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
pythondetectortabletop
ros-gbp/sql_database-release
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:89 commits in 2 days
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