Kourosh Parsa
Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Robotic Surgery, Modeling & Simulation
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolKourosh Parsa is a Ph.D. mechanical engineer and Senior Principal Systems Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience in dynamics, modeling, simulation, design, and fabrication of robotic and automated systems across medical devices, space, marine energy, and manufacturing. He combines deep analytical rigor—comfortable with hand calculations, FEA, multibody dynamics, and custom MATLAB/C++ tooling—with practical fabrication and systems integration experience validated in ocean deployments and surgical robotics. A proven leader and mentor, he has built and managed multidisciplinary teams, interfaced with R&D, manufacturing, business development and the C-suite, and translated complex technical findings into strategy and customer-facing results. His career includes patent-winning platform design, development of vision-based satellite capture simulators, and production-calibrated hydrodynamics models for wave energy converters, showing a rare blend of research-level modeling and field-proven engineering. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he is passionate about hands-on R&D and nurturing junior engineers while continuously improving modeling and test practices.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Multibody Dynamics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Multibody Dynamics at McGill University
Github Skills (25)
remote-host10
django-admin10
django9
python8
django-forms7
iis5
filter5
circos5
bioinformatics4
html4
d3js4
javascript3
testing3
admin3
cytoscapejs3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kouroshparsa/django_trace
Mar 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
kouroshparsa/parallel_sync
Oct 2015 - Jun 2022
Python package for rapid syncing of files to or from remote hosts
Contributions:2 reviews, 25 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 8 months
pythonremote-host
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