William Koch
Senior Real-time Controls Engineer at Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Koch is a senior real-time controls engineer with 12 years of experience building flight control and autonomy systems, currently applying his expertise at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. He has led autonomous navigation and advanced flight-controls teams at Merlin, designing full-stack solutions from system identification and controller design to flight test execution and tuning, with 50+ sorties as a test director. His background bridges academic research and industry: a PhD-trained researcher who created Neuroflight and GymFC—the first open-source neural-network flight control firmware and training environment—and published in top venues on cyber-physical security. Practical, safety-critical software, deep control theory, and security-aware engineering converge in his work, and he’s known for shipping productionized control systems that emerged from open research prototypes.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Daniel HandBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Rhode IslandMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (120)
simulator10
gymnasium10
ros10
pybullet10
platform-independent10
autopilot9
robotics9
ignition9
airsim9
bytecode9
unity3d9
cli-tools9
q-learning9
control-systems9
computer-vision9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wil3/lacus
Dec 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
wil3/sandboxed
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
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