Saif Sidhik
Robotics Engineer at Leap AI
UK, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSaif Sidhik is a Senior Robotics Engineer with nine years’ experience blending control theory and machine learning to build manipulation, legged, wheeled and aerial robotic systems. He holds a PhD in Robotics (Control and ML) from the University of Birmingham and has progressed from academic research on generalisable contact-manipulation policies to industry leadership roles at Dyson and Leap AI, where he developed control frameworks for locomanipulation platforms. Saif has hands-on product experience—contributing to sensor fusion and wireless hand-tracking for a commercial glove—and a track record of shipping research into practical prototypes and household-focused robots. He combines deep technical skills in control and ML with systems-level software engineering, mentoring students and leading cross-disciplinary teams. Based in Bristol, he brings both academic rigor and applied product sensibility, often tackling problems at the intersection of perception, planning and real-time control.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (44)
simulation10
python10
inverse-kinematics10
trajectory-optimization10
motion-planning10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
hardware-interface9
robotics9
robot9
mujoco9
cuda8
urdf8
ros-control8
navigation28
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
justagist/monocular_visual_graph_slam
Jul 2017 - May 2019
An implementation of Graph-based SLAM using only an onboard monocular camera. Developed as part of MSc Robotics Masters Thesis (2017) at University of Birmingham.
Contributions:158 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
graphrobotics
justagist/mujoco_panda
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
[ARCHIVED] Model definitions and Python API for controlling a Franka Emika Panda robot in the mujoco physics simulator. Superseded by https://github.com/justagist/mujoco_robot.
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
mujocopython
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