Nicolas Kalousdian
Principal Autonomy Engineer at Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Kalousdian is a Principal Autonomy Engineer with a decade of experience building AI-enabled task and motion planning for mobile robots and UAVs, currently leading autonomy development at GreenSight. He blends advanced path-planning and ML-powered sensing to create navigation and multi-agent coordination systems that operate robustly in chaotic, unstructured environments. His work has been funded by DARPA, the USAF and USN, and he brings practical systems engineering from industry (ROS, PX4, Ardupilot, Unity) together with academic rigor as a Research Associate and PhD candidate at the University of Stuttgart. Nicolas contributes to the RAI C++ framework used by TU Berlin’s Learning & Intelligent Systems Lab, lectures internationally at top institutions, and has a rare mix of computational design, robotics, and interdisciplinary program leadership. Notably, his background spans both digital fabrication and autonomous construction, giving him a distinctive edge in autonomy for physical-world building and deployment.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Digital Media and Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Digital Media and Liberal Arts at Maryland Institute College of ArtDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Robotic Construction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Robotic Construction at University of Stuttgart
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (26)
inverse10
robotics10
inverse-kinematics10
bare10
robot10
python-bindings10
python9
configurations9
urdf9
robotics-simulation9
optimization8
kinematics8
markov7
ros-driver4
eigen3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MarcToussaint/robotics-course
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:82 commits, 163 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
MarcToussaint/rai-robotModels
Nov 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:144 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
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