Mina Kamel
Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMina Kamel is a robotics-focused technology leader and serial founder with 11 years of experience building and commercializing UAV and mechatronics systems from ETH Zurich research to industry. As Co-Founder & CTO of Nautica Technologies and a current stealth startup co-founder, she blends hands-on firmware and backend development with product and company strategy. Her PhD-level background in mechatronics and work at ETH Zurich underpin deep expertise in control systems, simulation, and embedded development—evidenced by contributions to the popular RotorS UAV simulator improving rotor motor models and discretized filters. At Voliro she scaled research prototypes toward marketable aerial-robotics products, serving as CEO during early commercialization. Based in Zurich, Mina is comfortable switching between low-level controller design and high-level technical leadership, often surfacing elegant engineering fixes that improve simulation fidelity and real-world performance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Politecnico di MilanoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at ETH Zürich
English, Italian, Arabic
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Github Skills (13)
c-language10
gazebosim10
cprogramming-language10
gazebo-simulator10
vector6
algorithm6
matlab6
ros6
filter6
sensor6
noise6
image-processing6
cmake5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethz-asl/rotors_simulator
Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
RotorS is a UAV gazebo simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 commits, 27 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mina primarily focused on implementing and refining the `gazebo_motor_model` plugin within the `rotors_simulator` repository, which is designed for UAV simulation. Their contributions involved adding a first-order system to the rotor velocity, fixing velocity limits imposed by Gazebo, and implementing a first-order filter for rotor velocity. They also improved the code's structure by creating a first-order filter template class, incorporating exact discretization, and adjusting code style.
gazeboignitionrobotics-simulationgazebosimros2
ethz-asl/mav_dji_ros_interface
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
Interface of DJI autopilot based on its OSDK (3.2)
Contributions:41 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
autopilotdji
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