# Miles Priebe

> Software Engineer @ Merlin Labs

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/milespriebe

I am passionate about bridging the gap between human-like perception and robotic capabilities. I am currently exploring how this can be done in the aviation domain by developing new features for an autonomous pilot.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Merlin
Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Student Associate @ Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States
-Enhancement of perception algorithms to estimate object states through the integration of vision and tactile sensor data.

-Development in a simulated environment and ensuring their successful transfer and performance on real-world advanced robotic platforms with multi-fingered hands (Sim2Real).

-Exploration of temporal approaches to improve the stability of the estimates over time.

### Graduate Research Assistant - University of Minnesota Robotics: Perception and Manipulation Lab @ University of Minnesota
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Master’s Capstone: Applications of the Soft Bubble Grippers: Visuotactile Sensing for Visuomotor Policy Learning
-Re-designed 3D fabricated parts for compatibility with UR5e robot and Robotiq grippers. 
- Wrote ROS package to interface with Intel Realsense cameras and implement pose and shear deformation estimation functionalities.
- Trained and evaluated diffusion and transformer-based policy learning models on teleoperation demonstrations of various manipulation tasks including Push T and handover/placement of objects. 

Other research: 
- Developed a Sim2Real framework to classify objects and derive pose estimations from Gelsight tactile data.
-Evaluated the affect of object-centric representations on a diffusion-based policy learning model.

### Robotics Software Engineer Intern @ The Toro Company
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Developed a framework for LiDAR-based map generation and re-localization in GPS-denied environments.
- Interfaced with the NVIDIA Isaac ROS hardware acceleration package and an open-source LiDAR-inertial odometry package.
- Built support for offloading maps and positional data from hard-core processors to cloud tools for path planning and area clearing.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant - University of Minnesota Wearable Technology Lab @ University of Minnesota
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | St Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Project 1: Configured MQTT connection of soft robotic compression garment WIFI microcontroller to a central Hub server through Docker. Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students in computer science. Integrated a conversational voice assistant to provide real-time, in-home, unobtrusive sensing and on-body stimulation solutions (e.g., pressure, heat, etc.). Participated in a formal interview of my contribution and in a demonstration of the controllability and functionality of the technology.

- Project 2: Constructed a remotely controllable soft robotic compression garment to assist novice meditators. Assembled and soldered hardware for Bluetooth and MOSFET-driven actuator circuit. Programmed Arduino using C/C++ code to control the system. Developed a user interface in Processing, using Java code, to visualize which body areas stimuli was being presented to. Tested garment system through a guided meditation user study (n=10). 

- Project 3: Assisted with data collection and system testing for a hybrid shape memory alloy (SMA)- pneumatic-based wearable upper limb exoskeleton. Recorded power consumption, flection angle, and time of flection for a mannequin arm with various SMA layouts.

- Project 4: Designing neural-network-based controller for SMA-driven model arm flexion/extension using Matlab and Simulink. Comparing performance of various data-based model-free controllers on the system.

### Project Engineering Intern @ Open Systems International
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Wrote Python scripts for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to handle automatic data file parsing. Handled dumping and populating database operations to update customer interfaces.
- Product satisfied over 80% of mandatory system tests.
- Presented the final product tool and demonstration to the CEO and a large group of project managers.

### Machine Operator Assistant @ Amcor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
- Assembled/recorded flexible packaging products for shipment/inventory.
- Performed repairs and regular maintenance for plastic coating machines.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Robotics
University of Minnesota

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Minnesota

### Neenah High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/miles-priebe-38266b18a
- Portfolio: https://milesprieb.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31