Nathaniel Dennler
Postdoctoral Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Dennler is a postdoctoral scholar at MIT with a Ph.D. from USC and a decade of experience building human-robot interaction systems that adapt to end-user preferences to enable effective socially and physically assistive robots. He blends rigorous academic research—NSF Graduate Research Fellow work in personalization and teaching robotics courses—with industry experience at Uber and iRobot, shipping practical navigation and animation tools. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on making robots accessible to non-experts, translating user-centered models into deployable behaviors and control systems. An early hands-on background in space robotics and low-cost socially assistive platforms gives him uncommon depth across perception, motion planning, and behavior design.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Robotics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
face9
evolutionary-computation9
evolutionary-algorithms9
openai-gym9
robot9
optimization8
bare8
tablet8
speech8
robot-control8
human-computer-interaction7
synchronized7
python7
speech-recognition6
lip-sync6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ndennler/ndennler.github.io
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 97 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 8 months
interaction-lab/cordial-public
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Robot control for speech and synchronized behaviors, phone-based javascript face, and tablet interaface.
Contributions:46 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 6 months
behaviorsphonetabletjavascriptsynchronized
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