# Barzin Moridian

> loves working on robot autonomy

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/barzin

I design and lead the development of robotic systems that scale, whether it’s coordinating fleets across cities or enabling autonomous teams to manage energy in the field. My focus is on centralized planning, resilient control, and full-stack integration from algorithms to hardware. I build autonomy that performs reliably in the real world, and teams that do the same.

## Work Experience
### Staff Autonomy Engineer @ Glydways
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading dispatch and high-level planning for centralized fleet coordination, demand-aware routing, and optimization of autonomous on-demand personal rapid transit systems.

### Head of Robotics @ Petra
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built and guided a cross‑functional team to deliver robust robotics software, electronics, and control systems from prototype through field deployment of underground tunneling robots.

### Senior Research Staff @ Purdue University, Michigan Tech
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019
Directed multi‑disciplinary projects in robotic autonomy, guiding graduate and undergraduate researchers through development stages. Key research areas: collaborative robotics, fleet planning, online reinforcement learning for robot navigation.

### Robotics Graduate Researcher @ Nonlinear and Autonomous Systems Laboratory
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Houghton, MI
- Created agile graph‑based obstacle avoidance methods for real‑time motion planning in highly dynamic environments. 
- Built a 500 lbs rugged tracked robot with heavy payload capacity for off-road mobile robot testing.

### Dynamic Systems and Control Graduate Researcher @ Energy Mechatronics Laboratory (EML)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Developed Unscented and Extended Kalman Filter frameworks for simultaneous state and parameter estimation in commercial HVAC systems.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering
Michigan Technological University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/barzinm
- Portfolio: http://barzinm.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12