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Name David Ologan
Email ologandavid@gmail.com

Work

  • 2022.08 - 2028.05
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Robomechanics Lab, Carnegie Mellon
    • Maintainer of Quad-SDK, an widely adopted open-source, full-stack software framework for quadrupedal locomotion (900+ stars on Github).
    • Developed and deployed learned locomotion and disentanglement policies for quadrupedal robots navigating dense compliant vegetation, improving robustness and recovery in contact rich natural terrain.
    • Designed autonomous whole-body control frameworks for terrain-modifying robots (digging, excavation, plowing) that leverage terramechanics models of ground contact interaction during training, enabling stable and efficient execution across varying soil conditions.
    • Developed multi-agent coordination algorithms for heterogeneous robotic teams enabling safe, real time operation near humans, obstacles and other agents.

Education

  • 2028.05 - 2024.05

    Pittsburgh, PA

    Doctor of Philosophy
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Mechanical Engineering
  • 2022.08 - 2024.05

    Pittsburgh, PA

    Masters of Science
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Mechanical Engineering
  • 2018.05 - 2022.05

    Cambridge, MA

    Bachelors of Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering

Awards

Skills

Languages
Python
C/C++
MATLAB
Julia
Assembly
CSS/HTML
Software
ROS 1/2
IsaacSim/Lab
Mujoco
Gazebo
Docker
Tensorflow/Pytorch

Interests

Algorithms
Model Free Reinforcement Learning
Trajectory Optimization
Model Predictive Control
State Estimation
Legged Locomotion