Travers Rhodes
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTravers Rhodes is a software engineer with 8 years of industry experience, currently contributing to Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics team after building warehouse manipulation systems at Berkshire Grey. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell Tech (2024) where his dissertation developed low-dimensional latent representations for demonstrated robot trajectories, and an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon, combining strong theory with production-grade system delivery. Travers has a track record of shipping robotics and cloud analytics software, from singulation and manipulation pipelines to data-driven cloud services at Applied Predictive Technologies. Based in Mountain View, he blends expertise in control, planning, and machine learning with practical engineering instincts honed across academia and industry. A less obvious strength is his interdisciplinary foundation in physics and mathematics from Harvard, which informs his principled approach to representation learning for robotic behavior.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
AB Physics Mathematics, AB Physics Mathematics at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Cornell TechMaster of Science - MS Robotics, Master of Science - MS Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (19)
representations8
autoencoder7
ros6
slam-algorithms6
robust6
probabilistic6
graphical-models6
topological-data-analysis6
robotics6
probabilistic-graphical-models5
machine-learning4
deep-learning3
pytorch3
catkin2
perceptual2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
travers-rhodes/kinova_gen3_control
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 45 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 8 months
travers-rhodes/IROS2022CurvVAE
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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