Mohammed Kabir
Co-Founder CTO at Corvus Robotics
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammed Kabir is a roboticist and Co-Founder/CTO with 11 years of experience building vision-based, GPS-denied guidance and lifelong autonomy systems for aerial robots and deep-space missions. He leads autonomy at Corvus Robotics (YC S18), shipping robust visual-inertial odometry, long-term relocalization, semantic scene understanding, and real-time motion planning for industrial deployments. His background blends academic rigor from MIT with embedded systems expertise—contributing core drivers and time-sync features to PX4 and MAVROS—and a track record founding robotics teams like MIT Driverless and UASys. Focused on planet-to-planet autonomy and brain-machine augmentation, he designs complex hardware-software stacks and novel sensor integrations intended to operate autonomously across multi-decade missions. Outside work he contributes to major open-source projects and pursues photography and dystopian fiction, reflecting a creative streak that informs his systems-level engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Science, High School Science at St. Xavier's Collegiate School
English
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
px410
autopilot10
mavlink10
synchronized10
drones10
timex10
sys10
system-integration10
synchronize10
sensor-fusion10
timed10
embedded10
clock-synchronization10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Dec 2014 - Jun 2021
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 209 commits, 171 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mohammed primarily contributed to the PX4 Autopilot Software repository by implementing and refining the timesync functionality, which involved modifying the MAVLink receiver to handle timesync messages. They also made changes to the optical flow and camera trigger modules, including support for various camera interfaces and distance-based triggering, which suggests a focus on sensor integration and control. Furthermore, they added the initial support for the Analog Device ADIS16497 IMU, suggesting work on driver implementation and sensor fusion.
multicopteravoidancedroneuasraspberry-pi
mavlink/mavros
Oct 2014 - May 2018
MAVLink to ROS gateway with proxy for Ground Control Station
Role in this project:Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:54 commits, 18 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mohammed primarily worked on the `sys_time` plugin within the `mavros` repository, adding features for time synchronization. Their contributions include implementing a new timesync interface and integrating an advanced timesync algorithm to improve time accuracy. The user also made several updates to improve the plugin's stability and reliability, along with code changes in other plugins to synchronize with the new time protocol.
proxyros2ground-control-stationros-nodemavros-msgs
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