Nicholas Gurnard

Experience


2023

  • Zoox Vehicle Dynamics and Controls Simulation Engineer
  • Soon to be returning to Zoox!
  • Graduate Experience [DETAILED PORTFOLIO]
  • Trial by fire - graduate school. 2 years of projects, learning, and development displayed in one detailed Latex document.
  • Autonomous VIO Drone
  • F1TENTH Autonomous Racecar and Competition
  • Franka Panda Emika Robotic Arm
  • Ensemble Filtering
  • Mini-Minecraft (C++)
  • Energy Conscious MPC in Fluid Flow
  • Music Generation with VAE - Deep Learning
  • Mini-Maya (C++)
  • GLSL Shaders (C++)
  • Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotors
  • 3D Scene Flow - Computer Vision
  • This Website
  • This website was written entirely from scratch using HTML and SCSS. No template, no training wheels.
  • Aerial Robotics Teaching Assistant
  • Served as a teaching assistant to the Aerial Robotics PhD level course at the University of Pennsylvania. Conducted lab set up for autonomous drone flight, graded projects, conducted office hours, and aided in course content upgrades.

2022

2021

  • Undergraduate Experience [DETAILED PORTFOLIO]
  • 4 years of projects, learning, and development displayed in one detailed Latex document.
  • Robot Arm Forward/Inverse Kinematics in Mathematica
  • Autonomous Lane Following Robot
  • Human Activity Prediction - Machine Learning
  • Wearable Sensing Rehabilitation Device
  • Manufacturing Engineering Internship at Applied Medical - In Detail
  • Payload Delivery Drone
  • Solidworks Project - Tactical Shotgun from Video Game

2019