Pablo Palafox

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Co-Founder of AI logistics startup.
Expert in Computer Vision and Robotics.
Developed autonomous systems for drones and underwater vehicles.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Robotics and AI specialist with a focus on Computer Vision.

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Skills

Core Skills

RoboticsArtificial IntelligenceComputer VisionDeep Learning

Other Skills

3D ReconstructionARAndroid DevelopmentArduinoArtificial Neural NetworksC++Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Deep Neural Networks (DNN)MatlabNeural NetworksOpenCVPythonROSRecurrent Neural Networks (RNN)SLAM

Experience

Happyrobot (yc s23)

Co-Founder

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Building AI assistants for logistics.

C++ROSDeep LearningRoboticsArtificial Intelligence

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Research Intern

Oct 2021 – Jan 2022 · 3 mos · PRO @ Meta

Technical university munich

3 roles

Researcher and PhD Candidate @ 3D AI Lab under Prof. Angela Dai

Promoted

Dec 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Munich Area, Germany

Supervisor: Prof. Angela Dai
Have a look at my projects -> https://pablopalafox.github.io

Computer VisionDeep LearningPython

Research Assistant @ Daniel Cremers' Computer Vision Group

Feb 2019 – Jan 2020 · 11 mos · Munich Area, Germany

Topic: Local Tracking and Mapping for Direct Visual SLAM
Advisor: Nikolaus Demmel - Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Cremers

SLAMC++Computer VisionRobotics

Research Assistant @ Matthias Niessner's Visual Computing & Artificial Intelligence Group

Oct 2018 – May 2019 · 7 mos · Munich Area, Germany

Topic: Sceneflow prediction in Pointclouds and Voxelgrids using Deep Learning
Advisor: Prof. Matthias Niessner

Deep LearningComputer Vision

Ipb systems

Software Engineer [Sidejob]

Oct 2016 – Jul 2017 · 9 mos · Madrid Area, Spain

Development of wifi- and sound-based anti-drone systems using Deep Learning.

Deep LearningArtificial Intelligence

Universidad politécnica de madrid

Undergraduate Student Researcher [Research Grant]

Nov 2015 – Jun 2016 · 7 mos · Madrid Area, Spain

http://blogs.upm.es/robcib/2016/09/21/landing-on-ugv/
During this research grant, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, I worked at the Centre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC) of the Technical University of Madrid developing an Autonomous Landing system for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
More precisely, we implemented an algorithm that allowed a drone to autonomously take-off from a moving platform, get to a certain height, detect and follow the moving platform autonomously and, when told to (by pressing a button in a controller), land on the platform while the latter was still in motion.
This project idea was motivated by the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge.

RoboticsComputer Vision

Robdos team underwater robotics

Computer Vision Engineer

Sep 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Robdos Team is a multidisciplinary student association from the Technical University of Madrid developing an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. We participated in euRathlon 2015 and 2017.
I was in charge of detecting buoys and mannequins underwater. I implemented both a C++ algorithm based on traditional Computer Vision for detecting the former and a trained cascade person-classifier for detecting the mannequins. We used ROS as a framework for our robot system.

C++Computer VisionROSRobotics