Xander Hinrichsen
Robotics Software Engineer Intern at NVIDIA
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXander Hinrichsen is a robotics-focused machine learning engineer and current NVIDIA intern pursuing a master's in computer science at UC San Diego, with three years of hands-on research experience in robot action generation, learned rendering, and sample-efficient RL. He has contributed to academic projects at USC and UCSD, built a PyTorch-based ML curriculum for student events, and served as an instructional assistant for algorithms and math courses, reflecting strong foundations in applied mathematics. Xander is specifically driven to develop ML paradigms that train without industry-scale hardware, aiming toward a research career and eventual PhD. Notably, his background blends practical robotics software engineering with generative image techniques for complex robotic behaviors—an uncommon intersection that fuels his interest in high-dimensional data generation and field-ready architectures.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (6)
computer-vision10
robotics-simulation10
benchmark10
robotics10
reinforcement-learning10
manipulation10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Xander-Hinrichsen/ManiSkill
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
SAPIEN Manipulation Skill Framework, a GPU parallelized robotics simulator and benchmark
Contributions:79 pushes, 16 branches in 2 months
Xander-Hinrichsen/sp23-cse110-lab3
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
powell lab3
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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