Stuart Anderson
Sr. Research Engineering Manager at Iacta Chiminage
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Anderson is a senior research engineering manager in Pittsburgh who leads teams building generative AI technologies for immersive social experiences, drawing on six years of industry leadership and a decade-plus of robotics research. He balances hands-on engineering—contributing backend and CI/CD work to notable open-source projects like Meta’s fairo, including Allegro Hand integration and CAN bus torque control—with strategic product direction at scale. Previously he led robotics efforts at NVIDIA and held senior engineering leadership roles at Twitter, giving him deep experience at the intersection of deep learning, robotics, and large-scale infrastructure. He also co-founded and ran startups and serves as Managing Partner at Iacta Chiminage, reflecting a continual entrepreneurial thread through his career. Stuart holds a PhD in Robotics and a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, enabling him to translate control-theory rigor into practical AI systems. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves seamlessly between research prototypes and production pipelines, with a knack for shipping complex hardware-software integrations.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/fairo
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
A modular embodied agent architecture and platform for building embodied agents
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 30 commits, 4 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily contributed to the development of the Allegro Hand client within the `fairo` repository. Their work focused on integrating the Allegro Hand, importing necessary drivers and implementing functionality for torque control. This included creating and modifying files related to the hand client, including the CAN bus interface. Furthermore, the user implemented CI/CD configuration and build process adjustments.
agentagentsembodied-agentmodulararchitecture
stuart-fb/pyrobot
Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
PyRobot: An Open Source Robotics Research Platform
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
roboticspythonpyrobotrobot-frameworkros
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