Thomas Lew
Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute
United States
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Top SchoolThomas Lew is a Senior Research Scientist with nine years of experience designing decision-making, learning, and control algorithms for autonomous systems across academia and industry. He holds a PhD in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford and an MSc in Robotics from ETH Zürich, and has shipped research at Toyota Research Institute after internships at Google Brain (robotic table-wiping RL + optimal control) and NASA JPL (IMU-only inertial odometry for quadrotors in the SubT challenge). His work spans resilient control, safe learning, and risk-constrained optimal control, with hands-on implementations validated on platforms from quadrotors to quadrupeds. Known for bridging theory and practice, he combines rigorous academic methods with production-minded experimentation in robotics and autonomy. A subtle throughline in his career is tackling perception-poor or resource-limited settings (IMU-only navigation, contact inertial odometry, constrained aerobraking), making him adept at robust decision-making under uncertainty.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Bachelor's degree, Microengineering, Bachelor's degree, Microengineering at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMaster's degree, MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control, Master's degree, MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH ZurichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University
French, English, German, Polish
Github Skills (18)
sequential7
convex5
trajectory-optimization5
stochastic5
robot4
optimization4
python3
robotics3
reachability3
toolbox3
acl2
socks2
robustness2
machine-learning1
reinforcement-learning1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StanfordASL/GuSTO_quad_astrobee
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
StanfordASL/stochasticSCP
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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