Oswin So
Graduate Student
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolOswin So is a robotics-focused PhD student at MIT REALM with 11 years of engineering experience tackling safe control, safe reinforcement learning, reachability, and stochastic optimal control. He has a strong track record of research (RSS, ICRA, L4DC) from Georgia Tech through MIT and has interned at industry leaders including Toyota Research Institute, Aurora, Amazon Robotics, and Meta. Oswin blends rigorous theory with practical systems work—evident from contributions to RoboJackets’ RoboCup stack and prototyping production-ready planners and gRPC systems at startups. Based in Cambridge and originally from Hong Kong, he brings both global perspective and hands-on leadership, having led a 20-person software team to top competition finishes. Notably, his work spans multi-agent decentralized control and deep FBSDE methods, marrying cutting-edge stochastic optimal control with scalable software engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyChinese International School | 漢基國際學校
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (13)
robocup10
c-language10
robotics10
cprogramming-language10
refactoring9
state-management9
pytorch6
indexing6
drake6
python6
numpy6
optimization6
vuetify6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RoboJackets/robocup-software
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Georgia Tech RoboJackets Software for the RoboCup Small Size League
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 119 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Oswin's commits focused on refactoring and modifying the referee module within the RoboCup software. They removed context from referee business logic functions and renamed a class. The changes primarily involved the Referee class, modifying its run, and update functions. These modifications also included updates to the game state logic, impacting game state handling and related command execution.
roboticssmall-sizerobojacketsgeorgialeague
oswinso/oswinso.github.io
Sep 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
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