Evan Wilson

Evan Wilson has a diverse work experience, starting with their role as a Mechanical Engineer at Xwing in 2016. Evan was an intern at The University of Auckland in 2015 and at ETH Zurich in 2014. In 2012, they worked as an undergraduate researcher at MIT, where they applied a version of the Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm to enable path planning and object avoidance with a five degree of freedom arm for the Envoy Intelligent Wheelchair Project. Evan also incorporated functional simulation of the arm in a wheelchair visualizer. Prior to that, in 2012 and 2011, Evan had internships at Carnegie Robotics LLC. Evan began their work experience as a Student Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010, where they utilized a new method of RNAi to suppress multiple genes simultaneously in C. elegans and researched proteins to identify their effects on the folding of the human ENaC protein in yeast.

Evan Wilson obtained a Bachelor of Science (SB) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between the years 2012 and 2016.