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Nick Walton

Software Engineer

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About Me

I'm a computer science student passionate about robotics, deep learning and technology that can save and improve lives.

Education

Brigham Young University

Dec 2019

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Experience

AI Research Assistant

BYU Perception, Cognition and Control Lab

  • Worked in team of four to develop “Holodeck”, an open source robotics simulator for machine learning with over 10,000 lines of code (https://github.com/BYU-PCCL/Holodeck)
  • Optimized multi camera system in Holodeck increasing performance by 2X
  • Enabled headless rendering for running on dedicated GPU clusters

Autonomous Driving System Eng. Intern

Autoliv Japan

  • Worked on development and testing of HIL system for robustly testing automotive camera and radar sensors on petabytes of raw sensor data
  • Researched 3D computer vision methods and developed and got approved plan for using Lidar ground truth to save over $1 million per year in human labeling costs
  • Developed software to analyze object detection algorithm performance over thousands of kilometers of vehicle driving data

Robotics Research Assistant

BYU Robotics and Dynamics Laboratory

  • Researched and tested methods of high precision orientation tracking for estimating joint angles on inflatable robots
  • Developed software using Python and C++ for sensor communication in ROS

Projects

Holodeck, Robotics Simulator

  • Holodeck is a simulator based on the Unreal Engine that can be used for research, classes, or fun. It consists of agents (including humanoid robots and UAVs), environments (such as cities, forests, and deserts).
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Simulated Self Driving Car

  • Developed a traffic sign classifier using CNNs in TensorFlow
  • Trained a simulated self driving car using neural networks to traverse difficult roads
  • Used Computer Vision techniques to robustly detecting lane lines in a video stream
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Robot Arm

  • Analyzed torque, stress, and power requirements for 4 DOF robot arm
  • 3D printed, assembled and wired robot arm
  • Created software to control robot arm on Linux using ROS and python
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