# Simi A.

> Robotics Software Engineer | prev. Robotics @ CMU

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

I am an experienced robotics software engineer, currently building autonomy for autonomous trucks. Previously, I was leading the autonomy team to develop autonomy for off-road vehicles at DIMAAG-AI. I’m passionate about building practical, reliable autonomy solutions to solve real problems. From warehouse robots to lunar rovers, I thrive on solving tough problems and pushing the boundaries of robotics.

I specialize in robotics software development with experience working in localization & mapping, perception and behavior planning. I have expertise working with ROS/ ROS 2, C++, Python, and behavior trees. My skills span across designing autonomous systems, computer vision, and machine learning. I’ve worked extensively with Gazebo, PyTorch, and OpenCV, and have a solid background in deploying scalable, real-time systems.

https://github.com/simiasher

## Work Experience
### Autonomy Engineer II @ Gatik
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, CA
Localization, Sensor Fusion, Integration & Testing

### Lead Robotics & AI Engineer @ DIMAAG
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Fremont, CA

### Robotics & AI Engineer @ DIMAAG
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Fremont, CA
Off-road AV

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Research Assistant at Prof. George Kantor’s Lab

### Robotics Engineer @ National Robotics Engineering Center
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Spearheaded a team of 10 interns to document and integrate internal tools and hardware resulting in a
modular outdoor mobile robot for developer testing
- Designed & built an interface for sensor triggers to behavior executive, allowing the mission objective of long range data collection

### Robotics Software Engineer @ MoonRanger
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Developed onboard navigation and logging software for the first autonomous lunar micro–rover

### Robotics Software Engineer @ Rapyuta Robotics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Tokyo, Japan
- Integrated fiducial marker based localization to enable dynamic navigation of robots in warehouses, resulting in a 60% decrease of daily startup time
- Engineered pointcloud-based emergency stop for AMRs, reducing stopping distance by 50% and eliminating risks of human injuries
- Developed dynamic obstacle detection & tracking using ICP to improve path planning, reducing robot travel distance by 15%
- Optimized face recognition & pose detection models for deployment on edge TPU devices, reducing inference time by 35% and boosting accuracy by 10%
- Optimized a human detection pipeline (Mobilenet), achieving an Intersection over Union (IoU) score of 83%

### Undergraduate Researcher @ System Engineering Lab, Kyushu University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Fukuoka, Japan
Research Title: Accident Prevention in Lower Limb Exoskeleton Robot using Deep Learning
Supervisor: Professor Kazuo Kiguchi
- Integrated LiDAR data and IMU with deep neural networks to enable real-time accident prediction & motion correction of a lower–limb exoskeleton robot, increasing accuracy by 15% (RCAR 2020)
- Constructed a pipeline for automated data acquisition, preprocessing & model training using Tensorflow, resulting in an optimized neural network architecture with 95% accuracy

### Research Intern @ Intelligent Robots and Vision Systems Lab, Kyushu University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Fukuoka, Japan
- Implemented SLAM using a Kalman filter on LiDAR, odometry and ultra–wideband ranging data on Turtlebot
- Developed a ROS-based teleoperation system to provide remote control of a tour guide robot, allowing for a successful public demonstration

### Intern @ Yaskawa Electric Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
- Performed data analysis of customers’ factory IoT data and formulated insights that led to reduction in power consumption by 25%


## Education
### Master's degree in Masters in Robotics Systems Development
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Mechanical Engineering
Kyushu University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/simi-asher
- Website: https://simiasher.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-05