Hey, I'm Ben! 👋

I'm a robotics & controls engineer interested in:

• Reinforcement Learning
• Control Theory
• Optimization

🚀 Projects

• AMSwarm 2.0: An ultra-fast drone swarm trajectory planning algorithm written in C++ with Python bindings
• 🥉 3rd place in Mistral x Hugging Face Robotics Hackathon 2025 with a bimanual robotic system that interprets natural language instruction and packs your bag for you:

🌍 Open Source Contributions

They say the best way to learn software is by contributing to open-source projects. Here are some contributions I'm proud of:

pytorch/rl

• State-of-the-art RL algorithm implementations (Link)
• A more advanced and flexible optimization API for the RL trainer ecosystem (Link)
• Auto-configuration of exploration module specs from RL environments (Link)
• Various small improvements, such as:
  • MPS compatibility fixes e.g. 1, 2
  • config classes, e.g. TanhModule and TensorDictSequential

🤗 LeRobot

• Support for external plugins for simulation environments (1, 2)

📚 Bio

• BASc Mechanical Engineering @ University of Toronto
• MSc Robotics, Systems & Control @ ETH Zurich

🔗 Links

Socials

• linkedin
• 🤗 Hugging Face Space

📚 Publications:

• Google Scholar
• arXiv