Nick Heppert
PHD Candidate (ELLIS & ELIZA)
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNick Heppert is a PhD candidate at the University of Freiburg specializing in robotic manipulation and machine learning, with 11 years of hands-on experience across academia and industry. His work spans autonomous systems, SLAM, and articulated object reconstruction, informed by research stints at Stanford, KAIST, Toyota Research Institute, Amazon, and TU Darmstadt. He combines a strong computational engineering foundation with practical hardware experience from quadcopter labs and cognitive science experiment implementation. As an ELLIS-affiliated researcher, he focuses on turning ML research into real-world robotics solutions and has a track record of international collaboration across Germany, South Korea, and the US. Notably, his background bridges low-level implementations in C++/CUDA and high-level autonomous system design, enabling end-to-end contributions from algorithms to robot deployment.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtAbitur, Abitur at Gymnasium GernsheimMaster of Science - MS - Exchange Year, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS - Exchange Year, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
German, English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (55)
robotics10
kalman-filter10
physics10
computer-graphics10
planning10
autonomous-robots10
slam10
pytorch9
python9
pose-estimation9
optimization9
ros9
deep-learning8
argparse8
dataclasses8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robot-learning-freiburg/CARTO
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
SuperN1ck/casino
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:40 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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