Neset Akmandor
Motion Control Engineer at Motional
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
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.
10 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 (53)
robotics10
toolbox10
stable-baselines10
robustness10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
reinforcement-learning9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
robot9
openai9
ros9
pybullet9
planning9
moveit9
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/tentabot
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Tentabot: Navigation Framework for Mobile Robots by Evaluating Motion Primitives (Tentacles)
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 49 pushes in 2 years 10 months
gazebotentaclesroboticsmobile-robotsreactive-navigation
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.