Rowland O'flaherty
Robotics Research Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRowland O'flaherty is a robotics research engineering manager with 26 years of experience advancing control theory, ML, and applied robotics across industry and academia. He leads NVIDIA’s Seattle Robotics Lab team to streamline robotics research by improving toolchains and the full robotics software stack—from dexterous manipulation and mobile platforms to CI/CD, cloud robotics, and rapid prototyping. A Georgia Tech PhD advised by Magnus Egerstedt, he brings deep expertise in control and machine learning complemented by prior work on radar algorithms at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and rover arm control at JPL. Rowland combines hands-on systems engineering (CAD, 3D printing, electronics) with strategic leadership, focused on making robots reliably useful in everyday environments. An often-overlooked strength is his breadth: he moves comfortably between low-level algorithms and practical deployment workflows to accelerate research impact.
26 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering at UC Santa BarbaraStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Tohoku University
Japanese
Github Skills (62)
hdf10
pddl10
rendering10
motion-planning10
bullet-physics9
visualization9
robotics9
python9
odometry9
3d9
calibration9
computer-graphics9
robot9
blackbox9
mesh-processing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
o-botics/quickbot_bbb
Dec 1999 - Apr 2015
Contributions:104 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 15 years 6 months
beaglebonepythonbeaglebone-black
rowoflo/Matlab_TrackablePackage
Nov 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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