Victor Dorobantu
PHD Student at Caltech
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolVictor Dorobantu is a PhD student at Caltech with 11 years of engineering and research experience at the intersection of machine learning, control, and distributed systems. He focuses on coupling active learning with nonlinear control to provide guaranteed behavior for autonomous systems, bringing hands-on expertise in simulation, real-time sensing, and controller design. His background spans industry internships and research roles—from building Java backends and large-scale mission-planning frameworks to developing LIDAR ConvNets and fault-tolerant robotic subsystems at Cornell. Comfortable moving between theory and practice, he has a track record of producing open research-grade software and physics-based simulators that accelerate experimental validation. Based in Los Angeles, he leverages strong systems thinking and cross-disciplinary experience to push practical AI/robotics innovations toward deployment.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Eden Prairie High SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Cornell University
Romanian, French
Github Skills (22)
control-theory10
simulation9
nonlinear9
python9
machine-learning9
dynamical-systems9
nonlinear-optimization9
regression9
controls9
electrical-engineering9
structural-engineering9
deep-learning8
parameter-estimation8
nonlinear-dynamics8
tensorflow8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vdorobantu/lyapy
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Library for simulation of nonlinear control systems, control design, and Lyapunov-based learning.
Contributions:45 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
regressionstructural-engineeringnonlinearnonlinear-optimizationnonlinear-dynamics
learning-and-control/core
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
Python simulation and hardware library for learning and control
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pythonsimulationlistshardwareelectrical-engineering
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