Omid Heidari
Manipulation Principal
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmid Heidari is an applied robotics engineer and Manipulation Principal with nine years of experience specializing in motion planning, manipulation, grasping, and multibody kinematics/dynamics. He blends academic rigor from a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with hands-on industry impact—contributing to MoveIt and designing heavy-industry manipulation tasks for humanoid robots. Comfortable implementing production-grade algorithms in C++ and Python, he has driven both research labs and product-focused teams at organizations from Idaho State University to Nauticus Robotics and Persona AI. Known for bridging theory and practice, he has shipped motion-planning improvements, real-time Cartesian smoothing, and TrajOpt integrations while mentoring open-source projects and students.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Mechanical Engineering, Msc Mechanical Engineering at Noshirvani Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering Robotics at Idaho State University
Persian, English
Github Skills (80)
robotics10
moveit10
robot10
planning10
motion-planning10
marker9
catkin9
plugin9
rviz9
python8
ros8
deep-learning8
gpu8
creator8
trajectory-optimization8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ommmid/moveit
Jun 2019 - May 2021
:robot: The MoveIt! motion planning framework
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 115 pushes in 1 year 11 months
roboticsmotionrobotmoveitplanning
ommmid/panda_moveit_config
May 2019 - May 2021
The Panda robot is the flagship MoveIt! integration robot
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
pandaroboticsrobotmoveit
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