# Harrison Chen > Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ OKSI Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harrisonchen1 Robotics software engineer with experience in developing and integrating navigation, perception, and mapping algorithms for mobile robotics systems. I am a self-driven learner who enjoys tackling complex challenges, especially in a collaborative manner. My goal is to leverage my skills and knowledge to build technologies that make a positive impact and help others. ## Work Experience ### Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ OKSI Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Autonomy Engineer @ PDW Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New Rochelle, New York, United States Contributed to development of the autonomy stack for a quadcopter, with primary contributions in trajectory generation, path planning, 3D mapping, and learning-based depth estimation. • Augmented quadcopter’s autonomy stack with trajectory generation capable of obstacle avoidance and breadth-first search for safe start and goal positions, increasing safety and reliability while flying • Utilized runtime polymorphism to modularize navigation pipeline, improving code abstraction and allowing for multiple flight modes with unique implementations • Evaluated stereo depth DNNs on Nvidia Jetson; calibrated Arducam sensors for disparity to depth conversion, wrote nodes to run TensorRT and ONNX models, and explored quantization options using MATLAB and Nvidia TAO • Integrated multi-sensor OctoMap and Voxblox 3D mapping algorithms into a C++ ROS package, enabling quadcopter to map occupancy by combining input from forward- and downward-facing RealSense cameras ### Robotics Engineer @ Jugaad Lab Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Worked on an automotive situational awareness system that used object detection and tracking on nearby vehicles and pedestrians to anticipate risky scenarios. • Projected tracked objects from 2D image into 3D world to evaluate risk posed to system user • Implemented a Kalman filter node in ROS to smooth tracked object trajectories • Created an application with Nvidia Isaac SDK to test detection algorithms in simulation ### Applied Product Development Intern @ FANUC America Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States Augmented welding robot recovery mechanism by allowing it to recalibrate in any reachable end effector orientation/position. • Utilized proprietary programming language KAREL to implement solution • Tested and validated implementation in ROBOGUIDE simulation, as well as on the robot ### Graduate Research Assistant, Barton Research Group (BRG) @ University of Michigan Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Assisted in the characterization of electrohydrodynamic printing dynamics for a novel dual-barrel configuration, which has potential applications in printed electronics and bioengineering. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant, NxR Laboratory @ Northwestern University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Evanston, Illinois, United States Designed a device that assists with surface haptic testing by moving subject’s hand back and forth laterally, then built it from machined aluminum, laser cut acrylic, and 3D printed parts. ### Projects Intern @ ExxonMobil Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Joliet, Illinois, United States Acted as project manager for construction of an access platform in the refinery used to reach a set of valves; further investigation revealed that installation of chainwheel operators would provide greater risk mitigation for $32k less. ### Quality Engineer Summer Intern @ HARMAN International Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States Carried out 40+ solder joint evaluations for car infotainment circuit boards using imaging from X-ray, stereo, and metallurgical microscopy; findings were compiled into reports used to validate manufacturing process. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Robotics University of Michigan Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering Northwestern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chen-harrison - Website: https://chen-harrison.github.io/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/harrisonchen1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harrisonchen1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01