Zahi Kakish
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
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Top SchoolZahi Kakish is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a decade of experience advancing swarm robotics, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and control systems. He co-founded Sol Robotics and has applied his research at places like NASA's Frontier Development Lab, tackling lunar resource prospecting with multi-agent systems. Known for bridging theory and practice, he combines deep academic training from ASU with hands-on product development experience dating back to Little Tikes. His work spans bio-robotics signal processing to large-scale autonomous collective systems, bringing a rare mix of experimental rigor, field-focused engineering, and entrepreneurial drive.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State UniversityMaster’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Akron
English, Arabic
Github Skills (94)
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deep-learning9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zmk5/jupyter-ros2
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Jupyter widget helpers for ros2, the Next-Generation of the Robot Operating System
Contributions:54 commits, 8 PRs, 31 pushes in 8 months
next-generationwidgetrobot-operating-systemros2webots
ACSLaboratory/pheeno_robot_stl_files
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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