Mitchell Fogelson
Co-Founder CEO at Beyond Reach Labs, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMitchell Fogelson is a roboticist and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building and commercializing advanced linkage-based structures and robotic systems. As Co-Founder and CEO of Beyond Reach Labs and a NASA-funded PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon, he blends hands-on mechanical design, ROS-enabled systems, and optimal control research to tackle challenges from lunar habitats to deployable disaster-relief towers. His background spans industry and academia—developing dynamic hopping robots at Penn, delivery and warehouse robots at Rakuten, and hardware design at iRobot—giving him a rare full-stack robotics perspective from firmware to structural optimization. Mitchell’s PhD thesis and NIAC work on kilometer-scale, extending structures reflect a practical focus on extreme deployment constraints and transport-volume efficiency. He is deeply versed in differentiable simulation, reinforcement learning, and collocation methods, and applies rapid prototyping tools like SolidWorks and Creo to turn theory into fieldable hardware. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines entrepreneurial drive with award-winning research to move ambitious aerospace and terrestrial robotics concepts toward real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Robotics, Master of Science (M.S.), Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (69)
robotics8
toolbox8
simulations7
simulation7
stable-baselines6
python6
system-identification6
mujoco6
physics6
physics-engine6
verification6
trajectory-optimization6
reinforcement-learning6
deep-reinforcement-learning5
robustness5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mfogelson/11-785_project
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
11-785 Group Project: YouShen Poetry generation
Contributions:2 reviews, 39 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
rakutentech/dorna_arm_ros
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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