Nikolas Martelaro
Chief Product Officer at Analogical Engines
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolas Martelaro is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute with a decade of experience bridging product design, interaction design, human-robot interaction, and mechatronic engineering. He leads a lab that develops tools and methods to augment designers’ capabilities, turning complex engineering and behavioral insights into more human-centered interactive products. His background includes PhD-level mechanical engineering research at Stanford, industry R&D leadership at Accenture, and hands-on internships at Microsoft and MITRE, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and practical product experience. Known for crafting experimental hardware and software systems, he specializes in making designers’ mental models visible through novel sensing and interaction techniques. Based in San Francisco, he combines designerly empathy with technical depth to tackle real-world interaction challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Engineering Design, Bachelor of Science (BS) Engineering Design at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering - Center for Design Research, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering - Center for Design Research at Stanford University
Github Skills (23)
experiment8
prototyping8
arduino7
hci6
javascript6
adafruit5
python4
raspberry-pi4
iot3
jupyterlab2
websocket2
chatbot2
version-control2
webserver2
statistics1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nikmart/interaction-engine
Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
Interaction Engine with javascript and serial connection to Arduino.
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 8 months
arduinojavascript
nikmart/nikmart.github.io
Feb 2019 - Apr 2026
Contributions:49 pushes, 2 issues in 7 years 2 months
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