Stephen Balakirsky
Chief Scientist - Aerospace, Transportation & Advanced Systems Laboratory
Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Balakirsky is a veteran robotics researcher and chief scientist leading aerospace, transportation, and advanced systems work at Georgia Tech Research Institute, with over 25 years of hands-on experience in robotics, simulation, and cognitive architectures. He helped develop foundational projects such as the USARSim simulation framework and the NIST 4D/RCS architecture, and his research outputs have been embedded in major cognitive systems and robot competitions. At GTRI he combines technical leadership and applied research—recently building an industrial cell that reasons about performance failures and autonomously adapts to changing conditions. He also chairs industrial efforts within the IEEE RAS Ontologies for Robotics and Autonomous Systems working group, bridging standards, knowledge representation, and real-world deployments. Based in Georgia, his background spans government labs and academia, blending deep systems engineering with practical metrics-driven evaluation.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkMSEE, Electrical Engineering, MSEE, Electrical Engineering at University of MarylandDr. Eng., Engineering, Dr. Eng., Engineering at University of Bremen
Github Skills (7)
pddl9
planning8
robot-control8
webots8
ros7
motion-planning7
robotics7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dr-steveb/ros2_planning_system
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
This repo contains a PPDL-based planning system for ROS2.
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
planningrosros2
usnistgov/el-robotics-core
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:136 commits in 1 year 6 months
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