Jeff Mahler

Jeff Mahler is a computer vision engineer and robotics researcher. Jeff is currently the co-founder and CTO of Ambi Robotics, a company that specializes in robot grasping across a wide variety of novel objects.

Mahler began their career as a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences department. There, they researched robotic grasping in semi-structured applications such as warehousing, flexible manufacturing, or assistive robotics in the home. Their research leveraged large datasets of 3D CAD models, computational geometry, physics, and statistical machine learning techniques to enable robustness to imprecision in sensing and control and to learn features of grasps that can be generalized across objects.

In 2015, Mahler left UC Berkeley to join Occipital, a computer vision company that develops 3D scanning solutions using RGB-D sensors. There, they led technical development for projects using deep learning for 3D scanning.

In 2018, Mahler left Occipital to join the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral scholar. There, they researched robot grasping across a wide variety of novel objects using deep learning, with a focus on simulation to reality transfer as well as benchmarking the performance of the Dex-Net technology on various robot hardware and compute systems.

Jeff Mahler received their PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Jeff also received their Electrical Engineering degree from The University of Texas at Austin in the field of Computer Engineering.

Jeff Mahler works with Stephen McKinley - Co-founder & VP of Operations, Matthew Matl - Co-founder & VP of Software. Jeff Mahler reports to Jim Liefer, CEO.