Sebastian Scherer
Director Of Safe Embodied AI at Field AI
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSebastian Scherer is a robotics leader with over a decade of experience advancing safe embodied AI for autonomous aerial systems, currently directing Safe Embodied AI at Field AI while holding research faculty roles at Carnegie Mellon University and The AIR Lab. He specializes in intelligent UAVs, obstacle avoidance, landing zone selection, and planning, translating deep academic research into deployable UAS capabilities. His career blends sustained university research—from a CMU Robotics PhD through faculty ranks—with industry senior scientist roles, giving him a rare mix of long-term scientific depth and practical product delivery. Known for navigating the safety and systems challenges of real-world flight, he focuses on making autonomy robust in complex, unstructured environments. Colleagues value his ability to connect rigorous planning and perception algorithms to operational constraints, reducing gaps between prototypes and fielded systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (47)
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disaster-recovery7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smash0190/Adv360-Pro-ZMK
Aug 2023 - May 2024
Production repository for the all-new Advantage360 Professional using ZMK engine
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 months
strapsai/.github
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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