Øystein Helgesen
Senior Autonomy Engineer at Zeabuz
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolØystein Helgesen is a Senior Autonomy Engineer based in Trondheim with nine years of experience specializing in sensor fusion, perception, and situational awareness for maritime autonomous systems. He transitioned from a PhD candidacy at NTNU—focused on sensor fusion and target tracking for autonomous urban ferries—into a hands-on role at Zeabuz, where he develops robust perception stacks for real-world vessels. His background blends academic rigor in engineering cybernetics with practical industry work at DNV GL evaluating and integrating sensors for autonomous navigation. Øystein is adept at turning research-grade algorithms into safety-minded, deployable systems and has experience mentoring students and creating curriculum in signal processing and computer vision. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges theory and practice, particularly in constrained maritime environments where sensor limits and regulations matter. He brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to building dependable autonomy for the challenging domain of ferries and coastal vessels.
9 years of coding experience
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (10)
robotics4
least-squares4
multi-objective-optimization2
optimization2
factor2
square2
graph2
constraint-programming2
combinatorial-optimization1
slam1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Autoferry/sensor_fusion_dataset
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Ninius/TTK4145---Elevator-Project
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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