Steven Jens Jorgensen

Steven Jens Jorgensen has worked in a variety of roles in the robotics field since 2010. From 2010 to 2012, they were a Student Researcher at MIT and an Intern at IHI Corporation. From 2012 to 2014, they were an Undergraduate Research Student in RVSN at MIT CSAIL and a Research Engineer at PIE Electronics. From 2014 to 2015, they were a PhD Candidate, MS PhD Graduate Research Student, and Mechatronics Teaching Assistant at The University of Texas at Austin. Since 2015, they have been a Robotics Engineer at Johnson Space Center, where they have developed state-of-art momentum-aware kinematic model-predictive controllers for humanoids, state-of-art VR-based teleoperation interfaces for the Valkyrie humanoid with Unity and ROS, mechanical design tools for humanoids, C++ and python wrappers for whole-body controller and planner APIs, perception code for the Multisense SL sensor, unit tests for acceptance testing whole-body controller updates, GUI configuration and back-end action servers for controlling the Valkyrie robot, and documented and updated sensor calibration procedures for the IMU, Multisense SL, and absolute position joint encoders. In 2022, they began working as a Senior Software Engineer - Robotics at Apptronik.

Steven Jens Jorgensen has a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, which they completed in 2020. Steven Jens also has a Master's degree in Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, which they completed in 2017. Steven Jens'sundergraduate degree is a B.S. Engineering from the M.E. Department: 2A-6 Control, Instrumentation and Robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which they completed in 2014.