Notice, Interate, Simplify

With Unconditional Love For Customers

Passionate software engineer with a love for building innovative solutions that make a difference.

Experience

Past Research & Development Experience

ConstructionIoTRobotics

construction

Building single and multifamily homes across New York City. From concrete foundations, decks, wood and metal framings, all the way to windows, sheetrock, plywood, doors, and finishing.

New York City downtown Manhattan skyline

iot

Research and Development in Wireless Sensor Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things. Focusing on applications in Smart Home and Smart City. Shipped products with Phillips, Nest, Essential, and Tesla.

Philips company logo
Nest company logo
Essential company logo
Tesla company logo

robotics

Research and Development focusing on applying AI and robotics into Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Training arm robots with Reinforcement Learning algorithms. Building humanoid software stack. Google X (now Intrinsic), Google Brain Robotics and Figure AI.

Google X (Intrinsic) logo
Google logo
Figure AI logo

Past Entrepreneurship Experience

Paxe.net

2007

Founded home office networking startup in NYC.

Paxe.net

Nest

2015

Joined Nest Labs when it was acquired by Google (~ employee #350)

Nest logo

Essential

2017

Joined Essential to build the new home operating system AmbientOS. Working out of Playground Global. (~ employee #25)

Essential logo

Google X

2018

Worked at the Google Moonshot Factory. Joined small industrial robotics project, which graduated to become an Alphabet company known as Intrinsic (~ employee #18)

Google X logo

Figure AI

2022

Joined as the first software engineer to start a new humanoid company. Working out of co-working Spaces before we got the first big building (~ employee #9)

Figure AI logo

Hamster Works

2023

Founded R&D startup dedicated to creating innovative tools and processes for building, maintaining, and fixing embedded software running on microcontrollers. Shipped Firmware Studio.

Hamster Works logo
Entrepreneurship

Next

ConstructionIoTRoboticsNEXT

Industry

Hamster Works

Founder & CEO or a Research & Development Lab dedicated to creating innovative tools and processes for building, maintaining, and fixing embedded software running on microcontrollers

Hamster Works

Figure AI

Started company's software development infrastructure from scratch and designed the first version of the Humanoid Management Systems.

Figure AI

Tesla

Accelerated transition to sustainable energy with industrial (Megapack) and residential (Powerwall) energy storage products as well as witeless vehicle charging.

Tesla

Google Brain Robotics

Robots playing ping pong, Reinforcement Learning with Model Predictive Control and robotics teleoperation.

Google Brain Robotics

Google X (now Instrinsic)

AI meets Indystry 4.0. Building the future of manufacturing with AI and robotics.

Google X (now Instrinsic)

Google Hardware

Nest Thermostat, 3rd Generation and version E.

Google Hardware

Essential

New home operating system Ambient OS - the biggest thing since Android.

Essential

Nest

Building a conscious home that takes care of people inside and the surrounding environment. Nest Learning Thermostat, Nest Protect, Nest Security and network protocols for smart home: Thread and Weave.

Nest

Philips

Helping to build the future of smart city with outdoor ligting products.

Philips

Academia

Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, NY.

Columbia University Logo

Fennec Fox

Fennec Fox is a platform for low-power wireless embedded devices requiring dynamic network reconfiguration and communication service adaption. Fennec Fox is a platform providing network reconfiguration mechanism. The platform consists of a four-layer network protocol stack, where at runtime various library module may support each layer service. Fennec Fox also provides mechanisms ensuring that all nodes within a network are configured in the same way.

Swift Fox

Swift Fox is a programming language for runtime dynamic network reconfiguration of low-power wireless network running on Fennec Fox platform. Swift Fox compiler is written in C using Flex and Bison libraries. Flex is a tool for generating lexical analyzers and it is an open version of lex. Bison is a parser generator and it is a GNU version of yacc. The generated output of the Swift Fox program is nesC code.

Hardware-Software-Network Codesign for Internet-of-Things

Hardware-Software-Network Codesign for Internet-of-Things introduces a new development environment for wireless embedded devices that consists of hardware platform simulator, embedded software running on the simulated instruction-accurate hardware, and wireless communication. Our simulator supports two modes of operation: standalone with hardware, software and network simulation running on a single machine, and testbed mode, with radio hardware-in-the-loop replacing the simulated wireless communication.

GOALI Project

GOALI Project is NSF sponsored project researching methods for network-enabled embedded monitoring and control for high-performance buildings. Because building occupancy has high-impact on building's energy consumption (HVAC, Light, etc) we focus on development of centralized and distributed occupancy estimation algorithms and deployment of those algorithms in buildings with supported cyber infrastructure, such as wireless networks of sensors and actuators supported with cloud computing.

Open Testbed Framework

Open Testbed Framework The Open Testbed Framework (OTF) consists of a set of tools for rapid deployment of a Low-Power Wireless Network (LPWN) testbeds. The LPWN is the underlying communication architecture for systems monitoring environment, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and systems interacting with the surrounding environment through sensors and actuators, referred to as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).

EnHANTs

Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) are small, flexible, and energetically self-reliant devices that can be attached to objects that are traditionally not networked (e.g., books, furniture, walls, doors, toys, keys, clothing, and produce), thereby providing the infrastructure for various novel tracking applications. Examples of these applications include locating misplaced items, continuous monitoring of objects (items in a store, boxes in transit), and determining locations of disaster survivors.

Publications

  • Modeling and Implementation of Energy Neutral Sensing Systems

    Marcin K Szczodrak, Omprakash Gnawali and Luca P Carloni

    Proc. of ENSSys Work., November, 2013

  • An Open Framework to Deploy Heterogeneous Wireless Testbed for Cyber-Physical Systems

    Marcin K Szczodrak, Yong Yang, Dave Cavalcanti and Luca P Carloni

    Proc. of IEEE SIES Symp., June, 2013

  • Dynamic Reconfiguration of Wireless Sensor Networks to Support Heterogeneous Applications

    Marcin K Szczodrak, Omprakash Gnawali and Luca P Carloni

    Proc. IEEE DCOSS Conf., May, 2013

  • Prototyping Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs)

    Maria Gorlatova, Robert Margolies, John Sarik, Gerald Stanje, Jianxun Zhu, Baradwaj Vigraham, Marcin K Szczodrak, Luca P Carloni, Peter Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis and Gil Zussman

    Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'13 mini-conference, Turin, Italy, April, 2013

  • Demo: A Complete Framework for Programming Event Driven, Self-Reconfigurable Low Power Wireless Networks

    Marcin K Szczodrak and Luca P Carloni

    ACM SenSys11, Seattle, WA, November, 2011

  • Demo: Organic Solar Cell-equipped Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tag (EnHANT) Prototypes

    Gerald Stanje, Paul Miller, Jianxun Zhu, Alexander Smith, Olivia Winn, Robert Margolies, Maria Gorlatova, John Sarik, Marcin K Szczodrak, Baradwaj Vigraham, Luca P Carloni, Peter Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis and Gil Zussman

    ACM SenSys11, Seattle, WA, November, 2011

  • Demo: Prototyping UWB-Enabled EnHANTs

    Jianxun Zhu, Gerald Stanje, Robert Margolies, Maria Gorlatova, John Sarik, Zainab Noorbhaiwala, Paul Miller, Marcin K Szczodrak, Baradwaj Vigraham, Luca P Carloni, Peter Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis and Gil Zussman

    ACM MobiSys11, Washington, DC, June 2011

  • Prototyping Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags: Phase II MICA Mote-based Devices

    Maria Gorlatova, Zainad Noorbhaiwala, Abraham Skolnik, John Sarik, Marcin K Szczodrak, Jiasi Chen, Michael Zapas, Luca P Carloni, Peter Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis, Dan Rubenstein and Gil Zussman

    ACM MobiCom'10, Chicago, IL, September 2010

  • Tiered Architecture for On-line Detection, Isolation, and Repair of Faults in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Sadaf Zahedi, Marcin K Szczodrak, Ping Ji, Dinkar Mylaraswamy, Mani B Srivastava and Robert Young

    MILCOM, San Diego, CA, November 17-19, 2008

  • Simulation Framework for QoI Characterization of Sensor Networks in the Presence of Faults

    Marcin K Szczodrak, Sadaf Zahedi, Ping Ji, Dinkar Mylaraswamy, Mani B Srivastava and Robert Young

    The Second Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, Imperial College London, UK, September 16-18, 2008

  • Multivariate Model for Data Cleansing in Sensor Networks

    Ping Ji and Marcin K Szczodrak

    The Second Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, Imperial College London, UK, September 16-18, 2008

  • Two-Tier Framework for Sensor Fault Characterization in Sensor Networks

    Sadaf Zahedi, Marcin K Szczodrak, Ping Ji, Dinkar Mylaraswamy, Mani B Srivastava and Robert Young

    The Second Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, Imperial College London, UK, September 16-18, 2008

  • Two-Level ZigBee-4G Design for Secure and Efficient Communications in the Resources Constrained Military Environment

    Marcin K Szczodrak, Jinwoo Kim and Yuncheol Baek

    International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, vol. 7 no.10, October 2007

  • 4G and MANET, Wireless Network of Future Battlefield

    Marcin K Szczodrak and Jinwoo Kim

    Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Security & Management, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 2007

  • 4GM@4GW: Implementing 4G in the Military Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Environment

    Marcin K Szczodrak, Jinwoo Kim and Yuncheol Baek

    International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, vol.7 no.4, April 2007