Joshua Kuperman

Location

Boston, MA
Education
    Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
    January 2022 - May 2023
    degree
    Master's
    majors
    Aerospace Engineering
    Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
    Georgia Institute Of Technology
    August 2017 - December 2021
Work Experience
    ISEE (Autonomous Trucks)
    Research Intern
    Boston, MA, United States, 02297
    May 2022 - August 2022
    company
    ISEE (Autonomous Trucks)
    title
    Research Intern
    overview
    • Optimized highly constrained Bas-DDP and AL-DDP for imitation learning example generation on the GPU using Jax; achieved CPU runtimes 20x faster than NumPy and GPU runtimes 100s of times faster than the CPU • Designed testbed for randomized tractor-trailer parking scenarios for DDP comparisons with animated visualizations • Robustified AL-DDP to a >96% success rate using dynamics reversal for suboptimal scenarios with 0.1 m margins
    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
    Robotics Intern
    Pasadena, CA, United States, 91191
    June 2021 - August 2021
    M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory
    Surveillance Systems Co-op
    Boston, MA, United States, 02297
    January 2020 - April 2020
    Crossflow Technologies
    Simulation Intern
    Huntsville, AL, United States, 35899
    May 2019 - August 2019
Fun Fact

I also have experience in a professional kitchen as a chef!

Passion

As a roboticist and aerospace engineer, I am passionate about only the most challenging and societally beneficial problems, from UAVs and AVs to medical devices, autonomous logistics and agriculture. I am interested in the intersection between safe optimal control/planning and ML/CV.

Skills
Languages
EnglishRussian
Technical skills
cc++matlabpython
Skills
Deep learning Machine LearningNumPyPlanningPyTorch
Volunteer
    North Shore Animal League America
    September 2016 - May 2017
Hobbies
Rock Climbing
Volleyball
Cooking
Cats
Learning