Thomas Groechel
Software Developer at Simplex Trading LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Groechel is a software developer with a decade of experience combining robotics, augmented reality, and education technology, currently building trading software at Simplex Trading in Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. from USC where his research produced kinesthetic AR coding experiences paired with autonomous robot tutors and investigated learning behavior trees from demonstration. Thomas has industry experience at iRobot contributing ROS 2 lifecycle node work and open-source fixes, and a track record mentoring students who went on to author papers and win awards. Comfortable moving between research and production, he blends systems-level robotics (C++, ROS) with human-centered AR learning design and has co-authored funded grants and organized a major workshop in his field.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelors Science & Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelors Science & Engineering, Computer Science at University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (19)
unity3d10
ros9
cpp9
autonomous-robots8
robot8
trajectory-generation8
simulation7
urdf7
robotics-simulation6
motion-planning6
expert6
robot-control5
speech4
signal4
autonomy3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
interaction-lab/NRI-SVTE
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
NRI SVTE Signal Design for Non-Expert Users
Contributions:19 PRs, 150 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year
signalexpert
us-women-in-robotics-research/us-women-in-robotics-research.github.io
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:96 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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