Jeff Mahler | Source | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ambi Robotics

Jeff Mahler is a Co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Ambi Robotics, previously serving as CEO of the company. Jeff is responsible for guiding the vision and execution of the company’s advanced operating system, AmbiOS, to power highly-dexterous robotic systems in commercial production.
Jeff obtained his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley as a member of the AUTOLAB and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. His dissertation research is on the Dexterity-Network (Dex-Net) and he has also published on deep learning from demonstration and control for surgical robots. His research papers have been nominated for numerous awards including Best Manipulation Paper (ICRA 2016) and Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper (ICRA 2016) His open source code, training datasets, and
neural network weights receive hundreds of downloads per month. Along with Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy, he helped start EE 106B, the UC Berkeley course on mathematical models for robot manipulation. He co-founded the 3D scanning startup Lynx Laboratories in 2012, which was acquired by Occipital, Inc., and he received the National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship in 2015.