Nick Walker
Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNick Walker is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT with 13 years of experience specializing in human-robot communication, service robots, teleoperation, and natural language interfaces. His PhD work at the University of Washington produced methods for making robot behaviors automatically transparent and generating communicative actions during task execution, bridging formal interaction design with perceptual evaluation. He has industry experience prototyping assistive teleoperation at NVIDIA and building experimental NLP and BCI tooling during internships, including two provisional patent applications. Nick’s background in curriculum learning and transfer for reinforcement learning from UT Austin informs a pragmatic approach to robot behavior and learning in real-world settings. Based in Boston, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on systems development and a knack for revealing how subtle communicative signals change human perceptions of autonomous agents.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Communications Arts High School
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Github Skills (192)
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vector-tiles10
hm-1010
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race-condition10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nickswalker/BubblesView
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
utexas-bwi/documentation
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
BWI wiki
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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