# Jean-Francois Dupuis

> Staff Robotics Engineer at Third Wave Automation

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeanfrancoisdupuis

Specialties: 
- Optimal path and trajectory planning
- Automated design and optimization
- Evolutionary Computation
- Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis
- Mechatronic system design
- Robotic
- Mobile Robotic
- Control system design

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Third Wave Automation
Jan 2023 – Present

### Staff Robotics Engineer @ Intrinsic
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California
As the motion planning lead:
- Defined the development roadmap of the motion planning stack.
- Balanced long-term, high-risk research projects and short-term features delivery to active products.
- Provided clear problem solving strategies and mitigated delivery risks.

As an IC:
- Developed a Time-Optimal Path Parameterization (TOPP) solution for jerk limited motions of industrial robot arms.
- Lead major refactors around our kinematics libraries and API of our Inverse Kinematics (IK) solvers.

### Staff Robotics Engineer @ X: The Moonshot Factory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California
As the motion planning lead, I established strategic partnerships with multiple groups within Google to provide key technological components for delivering a solution to plan trajectories for a dense multi-robots work cells with stringent duty cycle requirements.

As an IC, I worked on core technology related to motion planning including:
- Developed novel robot arm motion planning algorithms to optimize cycle time in a tight multi-robots workspace.
- Developed an algorithm for swept volume computation of mesh geometries with unmatched culling of inner triangles.
- Improved collision checking performance of complex mesh geometries.
- Provided analytical, real-time IK solvers for spherical wrist, UR and offset wrist robot arms. 
- Implemented classic path planning (RRT, PRM, A*) and trajectory generation (time optimal, bounded jerk) algorithms.

### Sr. Robotics Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

### Senior Engineer @ Bot & Dolly
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Provided engineered solutions using industrial robots, real-time systems and sensor integration for creative use of robots in the film and visual art industry.

### External Lecturer @ Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Teaching 42615: Mechanism Design

This course covers the graphical and analytical linkage synthesis methods with special focus on the kinematic and dynamic analysis of the 4-bar and 6-bar mechanisms.

### PhD Student @ Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
Developed a system to automatically design both the controller and morphology of a hybrid mechatronic system using evolutionary algorithms. See education.

### Teaching Assistant @ Laval University
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Assist students and correct works and exams for these courses:
- IFT-21410 Neural Networks, winter 2006
- GEL-21148 Elements of Design, winter 2005 and 2006
- IFT-19966 Algorithms and Data Structure, autumn 2005
- IFT-19965 Linux C++ Programming, autumn 2004


## Education
### PhD in Mechatronic
DTU - Technical University of Denmark

### M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Université Laval

### B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering
Université Laval


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jean-francois-dupuis-549bb128
- Website: http://www.jfdupuis.info
- Website: http://jfd-android.blogspot.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01