# Nathaniel Glaser

> Zoox | Ph.D. GaTech

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

Leveraging LLM world knowledge for robotics and embodied intelligence.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance @ Zoox
Jan 2024 – Present | Foster City, California, United States
Collision avoidance system for self-driving.
Long-tail datasets, exposure, and statistics.
Foundational models for scene similarity search.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Bowery Farming
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Large-scale, distributed image search.  
End-to-end machine learning pipeline for visual inspection.
Computer vision for robotic strawberry harvesting.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Greater Atlanta Area
Research in collaborative perception:
Distributed semantic segmentation for quadrotor teams.
Robust perception for multi-vehicle self-driving.
Large-scale image similarity for vertical farming.

### Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area

### Software Engineer @ Traptic, Inc
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
3D computer vision for robotic strawberry harvesting.

### Researcher @ Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
Multi-robot SLAM.

### Robotics Engineer @ R-DEX Systems, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
Warehouse automation.
GPS-denied, feature-starved visual SLAM.

### Robotics Engineer @ Southwest Research Institute
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Antonio, Texas Area
Off-road autonomous driving.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Embedded Signal Processing Lab

### Robotics Engineer @ Southwest Research Institute
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Antonio, Texas Area
Off-road autonomous driving.

### System Test and Integration Engineer @ Lockheed Martin
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
F-16 system test and integration.

### Athletics Department Student Tutor @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Applied Physics (Magnet) Lab


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Physics
Texas A&M University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nathanglaser

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Last updated: 2026-03-23