Matt Dicicco
Director Of Robotics at Pliant Energy Systems Inc
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Dicicco is a Director of Robotics with 12+ years building complex robotic systems that bridge software, sensing, and mechanical design—from planetary diggers and lunar/martian payloads to bio-inspired underwater robots. He pairs deep hardware fluency (CAD, machining, electronics) with production-grade software skills (C/C++, Python, ROS, MATLAB/Simulink) to deliver end-to-end robotic products and fielded fleets. His background spans JPL flight projects, DARPA challenge work at MIT, mass deployment at KeyMe, and space-focused autonomy at Honeybee, giving him rare experience across research, flight validation, and commercial scaling. Known for practical control and force-feedback expertise, he excels at turning nuanced sensor data into robust motion and teleoperation solutions. Based in New York, he’s as comfortable in a machine shop as he is architecting control stacks, and he’s currently applying that hybrid skillset to underwater bio-inspired platforms.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.S. Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJohns Hopkins UniversityB.S. Mechanical Engineering with Robotics Minor, B.S. Mechanical Engineering with Robotics Minor at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (42)
gazebosim9
robotics9
kiosk9
backlight9
planning8
atlas8
modularity8
dynamics8
dataflow-programming8
visualization8
controller7
brightness7
slam-algorithms7
ros7
ati6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mdicicco/robot_arm_data
Nov 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
mdicicco/iiwa_stack
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
ros2ros-packagesroskukaros-indigo
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