Seiji Shaw
Graduate Student Robust Robotics Group
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeiji Shaw is a PhD student in MIT’s Robust Robotics Group (CSAIL) with 11 years of experience bridging research and applied robotics. Advised by Prof. Nick Roy, he focuses on resilient autonomous systems informed by prior undergraduate research at Brown’s Intelligent Robot Lab and an industry internship at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Trained in both computer science and mathematics, Seiji combines theoretical rigor with hands-on experimentation to advance dependable robot perception and decision-making. Based in the Los Angeles area, he brings a global perspective including a gap year at the Technion and a knack for translating academic ideas into practical, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Gap Year, Gap Year at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - ScB, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - ScB, Mathematics and Computer Science at Brown University
Japanese, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (22)
motion-planning10
ompl9
robotics9
planning9
imagej8
image7
robot6
image-processing6
nodes4
ros4
kd-tree3
python3
observable3
slam-algorithms3
nearest-neighbors3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
robustrobotics/latent_feasibility
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
Partially Observable Abstract Plan Feasibility
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 161 pushes in 2 years 5 months
observableplan
Team4159/FRC-2015
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:70 commits, 62 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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