Intrinsic

Software Engineer

Open Robotics

At Open Robotics, I was the "ROS Boss" of the Humble (LTS) release of ROS 2. This involved extensive collaboration with various stakeholders and the development of new infrastructure to streamline the release process.

To address a need in the testing process, I designed and implemented a Test Case Manager tool in Typescript. This tool automates the creation of test cases for different platform permutations and has been employed in several key releases, including ROS 2 Humble, ROS 2 Iron, and Gazebo Garden.

In addition to these responsibilities, I worked on various other projects that required a wide range of technical skills. These included debugging multithreaded executor issues, designing C++ client library features for Nvidia, contributing to NASA's VIPER mission, and integrating different UAV frameworks under a common API.

Robohub

As the Podcast Director at Robohub, I managed an international team and conducted over 100 interviews with key figures in the robotics field. The variety of our interviewees, from academics to industry leaders, allowed us to present a comprehensive view of the sector.

I led the team in expanding our podcast's monthly listenership from 2k to 120k and secured $20k in academic sponsorships. This growth and financial support helped to sustain our operations and extend our reach.

During my tenure, we produced and released 160 podcast episodes. This consistent output, combined with our increased listenership and financial support, illustrates my focus on steady growth and commitment to sharing knowledge in the robotics community.

Podcast Director

Halodi Robotics

Software Engineer Intern

senseFly

I work at Intrinsic AI, where I am a software engineer. I am also the host of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Previously, I hosted the Sense Think Act podcast and led Robohub's podcast. Outside of robotics, I rock climb.

Audrow Nash

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Event-driven active vision for object perception (ENDEAVOR) - Embodiment and bioinspired algorithms leveraging event-driven cameras and neuromorphic computing for robotic solutions.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow | 

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Bio-inspired vision algorithms on neuromorphic platforms. Event Driven Perception for Robotics Research Line.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - The Univerisity of Manchester 

Bio-inspired visual attention models to predict perceptual saliency in natural scenes exploiting event-driven sensing and neuromorphic platforms.

Ph.D. Fellow

◦ Software engineer, Middleware project combining Yarp Network, IBM Cloud services and Vodafone 5G for a robotic conversational healthcare application.
◦ Software engineer, Computer Vision, NDA project with a high-level Tech company. Programming Languages and Tools: JavaScript, Matlab, C++, IBM Cloud services

Visiting period at Matej Hoffmann’s laboratory - Humanoid and Cognitive Robotics Team - Exploring embodiment and body schema with event-driven sensing and neuromorphic algorithms.

Visiting Researcher

ALTEN

Safety critical verification and validation engineering for software requirements (high and low level) and test engineering(Test Procedure execution and writing). 
Stealth project.-SW Guidelines: ARINC-653, DO-178B/C-Tools & Programming Language: DOORS, WinMerge, C

Verification and Validation Engineer

British Schools of English

I helped the examiners with the classroom management during PET exam.

Assistant, Marshal for PET certification

"The brain is imagination, and that was exciting to me; I wanted to build a chip that could imagine something"; Misha Mahowald.

I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering, followed by a Master's Degree in Neuroengineering with honors from the University of Genoa and a Master's Thesis in Computer Vision on neuromorphic visual algorithms at King's College London. This experience laid the foundation for my understanding of bioinspired intelligent systems.

After a year as a software engineer for computer vision at the Italian Institute of Technology, I completed my PhD at The University of Manchester, receiving the President's Doctoral Scholar Award, the highest accolade bestowed upon postgraduate members for academic excellence and leadership potential. During my doctoral studies, I specialized in bioinspired algorithms for visual attention, focusing on the humanoid robot iCub. Additionally, I gained expertise in event-driven sensing and expanded my knowledge of neuromorphic algorithms through hands-on work with platforms such as SpiNNaker, Speck, and Loihi.

I continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology, exploiting the solutions that evolution has taken advantage of to solve daily visual tasks and improve artificial systems design by emulating such solutions on innovative neuromorphic hardware.

I have recently been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which funds my research project at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. The ENDEAVOR project, Event-driven Active Vision for Object Perception, focuses on leveraging end-to-end spiking-based architecture for online robotic applications, revolutionizing object recognition techniques.

My ongoing research revolves around neuromorphic algorithms and computing, with the objective of demonstrating their suitability for real-time robotics applications characterised by minimal power consumption and low latency. The visual attention model I proposed during my doctoral studies for the humanoid robot iCub, includes three channels of information: intensity, depth and motion showing great capabilities in terms of latency (~16ms response) and reduced computational loads. Its significance lies in laying the groundwork and establishing the necessary framework to ensure functional saccadic movements for active visual exploration of the scene.

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