Sebastien Wah

Sebastien Wah is a robotics engineer who currently works for Multiply Labs. Sebastien has also worked as an undergraduate research assistant and a mechanical automation intern in the past.

Sebastien Wah was born in France and moved to the United States when they were a child. Sebastien has always been interested in machines and how they work. When they were in high school, they took apart their parents' car engine and put it back together again. Sebastien was also interested in computers and taught himself how to code.

After high school, Sebastien Wah attended MIT where they studied mechanical engineering. While at MIT, they worked as an undergraduate research assistant for the Computational Design and Fabrication Group. In this position, they helped work on a novel differentiable finite-element based simulator for soft robotic applications. Sebastien also implemented simulation-in-the-loop trajectory control of a soft quadruped and position control of a soft robotic finger as well as system identification of material parameters through video capture of a soft robot.

After graduating from MIT, Sebastien Wah worked as a mechanical automation intern for Apple. In this position, they were responsible for designing and implementing a number of end-to-end automated testing rigs for the various sensors in Apple devices. Sebastien collaborated extensively with QA leads for various sensors including the Accelerometer and Gyro-meter, ALS, FaceID, and the Magnetometer to determine design specifications. Once they determined the design specifications, they modeled the rigs in Siemens NX, sourced the purchasable bearings, actuators and structural components, and designed all the custom parts to be 3D printed or manufactured by a third party. During their time at Apple, they implemented over a dozen fully autonomous mechatronic solutions.

Sebastien Wah is currently working as a robotics engineer for Multiply Labs. In this position, they are responsible for designing and building robots that can be used in a variety of applications. Sebastien is also working on developing new methods for controlling robots and improving existing ones.

Sebastien Wah has a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Controls, Instrumentation and robotics. Sebastien also has a High School Diploma from The New School Rome.