James Deacon

James Deacon has a wealth of experience in the field of robotics and engineering. In 2020, they began working as the Software Engineering Manager of Robotics and Controls at advanced.farm, where they and their team work to improve the controls of robotics arms, harvester motion compensation, and fruit picking algorithms. Prior to this, they worked as a Computational Vision Researcher at Caltech from 2015-2020, where they tracked the firing timing of neurons inside a Jellyfish with respect to each other and food stimulus, was a Senior Software and Mechanical Team Member for the Caltech Robotics Team, a Business Manager, and a Project Engineer. In 2019, they worked as a Platform Engineer Intern at Mimosa, by Airspan, where they designed a system in C/C++/php/bash to control the functionality of the L26-T GPS chip on the company's A5X radios. In 2018, they worked as a Mechanical Engineering Intern at Mimosa Networks, where they created and updated mechanical drawings of various product components. In 2017, they worked as a Spacecraft Research Intern at the Experimental Cosmology Lab at UCSB, where they researched methods of thinning large silicon/titanium wafers to create ultra-thin spacecraft with extremely low mass. Finally, in 2014, they worked as a Computational Chemistry Research Intern at Baron Peter's chemical engineering lab at UCSB.

James Deacon obtained a Bachelor of Science - Double Major in Mechanical Engineering/Computer Science from Caltech in 2019. James then went on to pursue a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the same institution and completed it in 2020.