Trevor Ablett
Staff Research Scientist at Boston Dynamics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTrevor Ablett is a Staff Research Scientist with 11 years of robotics and controls experience, currently on Boston Dynamics’ behavior learning team helping Atlas acquire new skills. He completed a PhD at the University of Toronto’s STARS lab, where he combined state-of-the-art machine learning with robotic manipulators to enable end-to-end learning of complex tasks and published applied RL work during an internship at Samsung Research America. With roots in mechatronics engineering and practical controls work across PLCs, HMIs, and plant-scale automation, he blends hardware-savvy systems engineering with cutting-edge learning algorithms. Based in Cambridge, MA, Trevor brings a tinkerer’s instinct for physical systems together with rigorous academic research, uniquely positioning him to translate learned policies into robust robot behaviors.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechatronics Engineering at McMaster UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (21)
robot7
latex7
bibtex6
robotics6
modular6
openai-gym5
architecture5
machine-learning4
biblatex4
math4
python4
ros4
obsidian4
agent3
robotics-simulation3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
utiasSTARS/ros-np-tools
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
trevorablett/trevorablett.github.io
May 2018 - Aug 2025
Contributions:52 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 4 months
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