Victor Cauna
Founding Robotics Engineer at UCR
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Cauna is a founding robotics engineer and researcher with nine years of experience developing control systems, optimization, and AI algorithms for reliable, adaptive locomotion in legged robots and prostheses. With a PhD pursuit at The Ohio State University and prior master's work at Texas A&M, he bridges rigorous academic research—Control Lyapunov Functions, quadratic programming, hybrid systems—with hands-on embedded and mechatronics implementation from microcontrollers to Qt/Python UIs. He co-founded Lima Bionics to deliver low-cost EMG-controlled prosthetic hands, and now leads robotics efforts at UCR from Sunnyvale, California, combining startup pragmatism with lab-grade methodologies. Known for teaching nonlinear and classical control to undergraduates, he brings both pedagogy and practical system integration to complex locomotion problems. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of moving concepts from optimization theory into deployed hardware, closing the loop between simulation and real-world robot behavior.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechatronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronic Engineering at National University of EngineeringMaster's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
poly8
robotics7
simulator7
openai-gym7
python5
machine-learning5
simulation5
portable4
reinforcement-learning3
openai2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vcparedesc/victor-settings
Jun 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
vcparedesc/vcparedesc.github.io
Dec 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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