About Myself (正 蛭子)

My name is Matthew Ebisu and I am a engineering student, open-source project maker and currently an active researcher into Human-Robot Interaction. 

In 2014 I worked at Ray Kurzweil's educational center, Singularity University, where I was instrumental in helping transform the Innovation Lab from an educational playground into a cutting edge technology lab.  During my four years of work as an Innovation Lab technology designer, I applied my knowledge of cognitive science and brain-computer interface tech to develop several assistive tech projects, including a brain-controlled robot prosthetic hand.  I also developed several socially-interactive robot programs using our company’s Nao and Pepper robots using OpenCV and NLP to provide custom tours to guests for six months (over 200 human participants).

In 2018 I started work At Savioke Robotics.  Here, I honed my skills in software and hardware, debugging our company's fleet of autonomous delivery robots.  As an operations engineer, I worked closely with navigation engineers to help review and debug scripts (written in ROS, python 3, and Linux) to troubleshoot new experimental projects into production-ready robot features. 

Additionally, my long time interest in human-robot interaction helped shape numerous customer engagement projects. In addition to leading some of our new pilot programs for autonomous food delivery in office spaces, I used our in-house java-like language to script several delivery programs to give character and further human acceptance of our delivery robots.  

matthew.ebisu@tufts.edu