# Laura Koemmpel

> Staff Software Engineer of Robotic Simulation and Infrastructure at Boston Dynamics

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/laurakoemmpel

I'm passionate about applying technical problem solving skills to the worlds hardest problems. I am a level 3 staff software engineer at Boston Dynamics where I build simulation and test infrastructure for our warehouse robot Stretch.

I'm particularly interested in the fields of robotics, computer vision, game theory, cryptography and graph theory. To learn how software and game theory can explain altruistic bacteria, how partial differential equations can describe how water swirls, or why projective geometry math results from the 1960s apply to computer vision advances today, shoot me a message, or check out some of my projects below!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Boston Dynamics
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Support/Quality Engineer @ Boston Dynamics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Wise Systems, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Improved scheduling software for delivery drivers through improved error messages and tests. Gained experience in Javascript and Scala.

### Math teaching assistant and grader @ Art of Problem Solving
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Wrote detailed feedback on mathematical proofs written by middle and high school math students.

### Software Engineer @ Hosta Labs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Worked as the sole full-time software engineer, developing software for predicting measurements, depth, and 3D positions from photographs and phone sensor data. 

Integrated open source software with machine learning into the company's product and regularly read academic computer vision papers. 

Responsibilities included mentoring interns, making product development decisions, and communicating project details to technical and non-technical audiences.

### Computer Science Instructor @ MEET - Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Jerusalem, Israel
Taught intro Python to high school students for a 3-week summer program, prepping and teaching lectures, recitations, labs, office hours, and review sessions.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Worked with 3 other undergrads to help develop a reinforcement learning environment in Coq for computer automated proofs.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ MIT Math Department
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Worked with a fellow undergrad to expand upon research in game theory. Project involved studying the current literature in cooperative game theory and developing software in Python to model continual strategy updating of a network under various graph structures.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Politecnico di Torino
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Studied fluid dynamics and expanded on current research by deriving a linearized equation for enstrophy of 3-dimensional flows.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ MIT Math Department
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Studied the singularities of a 4-dimensional space using Legendrian knot theory


## Education
### Mathematics in Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Mathematics
Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/laura-koemmpel
- Portfolio: https://laurakoemmpel.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-31