Melvin Gauci
Senior Research Scientist at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMelvin Gauci is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in robotics and AI, currently advancing fulfillment technologies and robotics at Amazon with 11 years of hands-on research and development experience. He moved up from Research Scientist to senior role at Amazon after a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, where he translated biologically inspired engineering into practical robotic systems. His background blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Robotics & AI and an MS in Control Systems Engineering—with industrial-scale deployment of robotic solutions in logistics. Melvin is comfortable spanning theory and practice, from control systems and perception to integration in high-throughput fulfillment environments. He’s based in Boston and brings a track record of turning advanced research into reliable, production-ready robotics capabilities. A detail that sets him apart is his sustained focus on biologically inspired approaches, which informs novel solutions to complex automation challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Fellow Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, Postdoctoral Fellow Robotics & Artificial Intelligence at Harvard UniversityPhD Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, PhD Robotics & Artificial Intelligence at The University of SheffieldBS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Malta
English, Maltese, Italian
Github Skills (5)
google10
python9
automation9
certificate9
raspberry-pi1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mgauci/kilobot_notes
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:63 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mgauci/cmaes
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 10 days
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