Neset Akmandor
Motion Control Engineer at Motional
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeset Akmandor is a Motion Control Engineer with a PhD in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and over a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry in robotics. His work focuses on computationally efficient and robust motion generation and planning for time-sensitive tasks in dynamic environments, blending classical control/planning with machine learning. He has validated algorithms across simulations and real hardware, including wheeled mobile robots, UAVs, and mobile manipulators, and has progressed from research roles to a motion control position at Motional. His background includes hands-on hardware and embedded design experience dating back to early engineering roles and internships in aerospace and defense, giving him practical systems-level intuition. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating complex research prototypes into deployable trajectory-generation solutions, evidenced by internship work and collaborative lab repositories such as RIVeR-Lab projects. Based in Boston, he combines rigorous theoretical grounding with pragmatic engineering for real-world robotic autonomy.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ankara Atatürk Anatolian High SchoolMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Turkish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (40)
robotics10
toolbox10
stable-baselines10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
ros10
reinforcement-learning9
pytorch9
algorithms9
python9
machine-learning9
mobile9
openai9
moveit9
urdf8
motion-planning8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RIVeR-Lab/openai_ros
Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
RIVeR-Lab/iGibson
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
A Simulation Environment to train Robots in Large Realistic Interactive Scenes
Contributions:2 PRs, 111 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
simulation
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