Russ Islam
Head Of R&D at Scurid
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRuss Islam is Head of R&D and a physics-trained engineer blending 11 years of hands-on experience across robotics, IoT, embedded systems, and condensed matter research. He has co-founded and led engineering teams at multiple startups, shipping end-to-end products from microcontroller firmware and hardware design to cloud backends and mobile apps. His work at MUJIN and Scurid spans high-performance computer vision, motion planning, and robust on-site production integration, while his academic path (PhD candidate, University of Tokyo; BS/MS Stanford EE) grounds him in rigorous modeling and optimization. Comfortable moving between low-level drivers and theoretical reinforcement learning, he thrives on solving hard physics problems and scaling engineering into real-world, fast-moving products. An unusual strength is his cross-domain fluency—translating deep research ideas into manufacturable IoT and robotics solutions that operate reliably in the field.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoBS/MS, Electrical Engineering, BS/MS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
26reputation
102reached
2answers
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Github Skills (28)
robotics10
deploying10
virtual-environment10
testing10
sift10
transform10
planning10
motion-planning10
automation9
scale9
computer-vision9
python8
python-client8
machine-learning8
controller8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rmislam/MovieRecommendationInJulia
Oct 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
pythonfactorizationmovierecommendationmatrix-factorization
rmislam/optimization-algorithms-in-julia
Dec 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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