Michael Drolet
Ph.D. Student, Researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Drolet is a Ph.D. student and researcher in robot learning based in Darmstadt, bringing eight years of combined academic and industry experience across robotics, simulation, and software engineering. He progressed from undergraduate research and teaching roles at Arizona State University to graduate research and internships at Intel and Raytheon, honing skills in algorithms, modeling & simulation, and applied robotics. Now at Technische Universität Darmstadt, he focuses on robot learning research while leveraging practical systems experience from defense and semiconductor internships. Colleagues find him equally comfortable prototyping experimental algorithms and engineering robust simulations—an asset for turning research ideas into reproducible systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Master of Arts - MA at Arizona State UniversityTechnischen Universität Darmstadt
English
Github Skills (48)
openai-gym8
mujoco8
sac7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
pybullet6
dqn6
ddpg6
manipulation6
ros5
remote-app5
cuda5
deep-learning5
persistent5
robot5
reinforcement-learning5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ir-lab/irl_control
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Mujoco Control Suite for Bi-Manual Manipulation
Contributions:70 commits, 6 PRs, 28 pushes in 6 months
manipulationmanualmujocosuite
mdrolet01/upm-rotary-mqtt
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Container that allows users to use UPM and view live data in the browser via MQTT & Websockets
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
emqxwebsocketsbrowserupmmqtt
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