Philippe Babin
Senior Software Engineer at Latitude AI
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPhilippe Babin is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in real-time localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles, currently building systems at Latitude AI in Pittsburgh. He has deep C++ expertise honed at Argo AI and a research background from Laboratoire de robotique Ulaval, where he contributed to core ICP mapping libraries. Philippe is an active open-source contributor—having improved robustness, performance, and test coverage in the well-regarded libpointmatcher project—reflecting his focus on code quality and efficient algorithms. He blends academic rigor (Master’s in Computer Science from Université Laval) with pragmatic production engineering, routinely debugging and optimizing lidar-based localization stacks. Notably, his work spans both research prototypes and safety-critical vehicle software, demonstrating an ability to take advanced algorithms into real-world, real-time systems.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Génie informatique / Computer engineering, Génie informatique / Computer engineering at Université LavalNatural Sciences, Natural Sciences at Cégep de St-FoyDiplôme d'étude secondaire, Diplôme d'étude secondaire at Compagnion de cartier
French, English
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
robotics10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
linear-algebra9
ubuntu7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
norlab-ulaval/libpointmatcher
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
An Iterative Closest Point (ICP) library for 2D and 3D mapping in Robotics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 12 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the core library's functionality by fixing bugs and adding new features. Their work involved modifying existing outlier filters, including a VarTrimmedDistOutlierFilter optimization, and adding robust outlier filter functionalities. The user also fixed segfaults and removed boost utilities in the code, demonstrating a focus on code quality and efficiency. Unit tests were also added to ensure stability.
roboticsclosesticppoint-cloudsiterative
PhiBabin/libpointmatcher
Oct 2017 - May 2019
An "Iterative Closest Point" library for 2-D/3-D mapping in Robotics
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 6 months
roboticsclosestpoint-cloudsiterativepoint
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