John Duncan
Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Success at Voxel51
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Duncan is a Machine Learning Engineer focused on customer success at Voxel51, helping organizations operationalize computer vision with FiftyOne Enterprise. He holds a Ph.D. in robotics from UT Austin and has built real-time perception, sensor-fusion, and multimodal human-robot interaction systems for disaster response, defense, and energy applications. His background spans aerospace and satellite operations at Northrop Grumman, hands-on robot systems work at Southwest Research Institute and academia, and practical ROS/ROS2 tooling and Docker integrations validated in experiments. A volunteer-turned-Blackhawk pilot and career US Army Reservist, he brings operational discipline from 400+ flight hours, combat deployments, and innovation work with the Army’s Next Gen Combat Vehicle team. That blend of field-tested aviation, defense program consulting, and deep robotics/ML research enables him to translate complex technical capabilities into robust, mission-oriented products.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Astronautical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering (Robotics Portfolio), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering (Robotics Portfolio) at The University of Texas at AustinPostgraduate Certificate Cybernetics, Postgraduate Certificate Cybernetics at University of Reading
Github Skills (20)
robotics10
depthai10
camera10
ros-driver10
ros10
computer-vision9
pocketsphinx8
speech7
data-generation6
gstreamer6
image-editing4
3d3
object-tracking3
usb3
stable-diffusion3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
roboav8r/marmot
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Modular and Reconfigurable Multiple Object Tracking (MaRMOT) framework for robots and intelligent systems
Contributions:1 release, 21 PRs, 144 pushes in 10 months
object-tracking
roboav8r/situated_interaction
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Graph Authenticated Command Interface for Autonomous Systems
Contributions:28 PRs, 196 pushes, 19 branches in 9 months
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