Valmik Prabhu
PHD Student at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolValmik Prabhu is a robotics and nonlinear control PhD student from UC Berkeley with a decade of research and teaching experience, currently on sabbatical while exploring new directions including bioprocess control for cultivated meat. He has deep expertise in nonconvex optimization, dynamical systems, and geometric methods, and pairs that theory with hands-on experience on industrial arms, mobile robots, and small quadcopters. An award-winning instructor who scaled and ran large robotics lab courses as Head TA, he designs curricula, labs, and assessments and has managed teams of TAs. His engineering background spans mechanical design, FEA, prototyping, and scientific programming (Python, MATLAB, R), with industry experience integrating vision, ROS, and MoveIt for robot arms. He has repeatedly reduced computational and process bottlenecks—e.g., speeding optimization and data-analysis workflows by orders of magnitude—and enjoys translating rigorous theory into practical systems. Open to roles inside or outside academia, he is pivoting toward impact-driven problems where control theory can meet biotechnology and real-world deployment.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Fachhochschule MünchenStanford Online High SchoolLos Gatos High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (39)
bug-tracker9
planning8
localization8
project-management8
crm7
retail7
python7
oms7
management6
project-planning6
solace6
php6
agile-development6
accounting6
integrations6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
valmik/ros_setup
Mar 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
valmik/valmik.github.io
May 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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