Vytas Sunspiral
Chief Science Officer at Newfound Materials
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVytas Sunspiral is a deep tech leader and inventor with 25+ years steering AI, autonomous robotics, and multidisciplinary R&D from NASA labs to startups and commercialization. As a founder, CTO and Chief Science Officer he has launched novel robotics, synthetic biology, and materials programs—translating early concepts into funded roadmaps, operational platforms, and IPO-scale companies. Known for building mutual understanding across technical and commercial stakeholders, he also runs a consultancy advising on AI strategy, techno-commercial roadmaps, and investor due diligence. His work uniquely spans hands-on actuator and robot design (including dielectric elastomer “artificial muscle” projects) to ML-driven computational chemistry and bioinformatics platforms. Based in Oakland and rooted in Stanford robotics and AI training, he combines academic collaboration experience with a track record of pragmatic product delivery and mentoring diverse technical teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Symbolic Systems -- Robotics and AI focus, BA, Symbolic Systems -- Robotics and AI focus at Stanford University
Github Skills (5)
robotics8
mujoco8
simulation8
simulator8
physics8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
NASA-Tensegrity-Robotics-Toolkit/NTRTsim
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
The NASA Tensegrity Robotics Toolkit Simulator, a physics based simulator to research the design and control of tensegrity robots.
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 1 push in 8 months
physicsroboticssimulationsimulatormujoco
vsunspiral/newchat_bootcamp
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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