Phani Kiran
Graduate Research Assistant
United States
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Top SchoolPhani Kiran is a roboticist and graduate research assistant with a decade of engineering experience and a strong record at Airbus developing avionics and robotics software. Currently at Northwestern’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems, he builds a high-fidelity Drake/ROS2 digital twin of a bimanual dexterous manipulator to enable hardware-in-the-loop haptic teleoperation and ML-based autonomy. His background spans motion planning, RRT adaptations for precise industrial tasks, and avionics tooling automation—work that reduced lead times and contributed to aircraft system longevity. He combines academic rigor (IIT Kharagpur, Northwestern MS) with hands-on systems integration, domain randomization for sim-to-real transfer, and leadership of cross-functional teams. Notably, he fixed intermittent middleware issues by contributing patches across multiple open-source libraries and authored an internal Airbus whitepaper on industrial motion planning.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Narayana Sri Chaitannya Junior CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 3.92/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 3.92/4.0 at Northwestern University10th Class, 10th Class at Sri Chaitanya Techno SchoolDual degree (BTech + MTech), Aerospace engineering, 3.83/4.0, Dual degree (BTech + MTech), Aerospace engineering, 3.83/4.0 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Telugu, Hindi, German
Github Skills (10)
ros5
robotics4
prototyping4
timing4
planning3
tla3
graph3
manipulation2
bazel2
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phanikiran1169/ROS_Basics
Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
phanikiran1169/IntroToROS
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Getting started with ROS1 (Robot Operating System)
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 months
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