Hello, I amChristian C. Ellis
Academic Researcher & Robotics Engineer
I create robust, adaptable, and safe autonomous systems leveraging machine learning, control, and computer vision to excel in challenging real-world scenarios.
Subject Matter Expertise
Machine Learning for Robotics
Applying deep learning, reinforcement learning, and other ML techniques to improve robot capabilities in navigation, manipulation, and decision-making tasks.
Computer Vision & Perception
Developing advanced perception systems that enable robots to understand and interpret their environment through visual data, depth sensing, and multi-modal fusion.
Product Leadership
Leading teams to develop and test software for autonomous systems, including perception, navigation, and control.
Software Engineering
Developing and testing software for autonomous systems, including perception, navigation, and control.
Applied Research & Development
Conducting research in real world robotics and autonomous systems to develop novel algorithms and methodologies.
Systems Engineering
Providing expert guidance on robotics and autonomous systems, including development, aquirement, testing, and deployment.
About Me
Christian Ellis is a joint postdoctoral researcher with the Army Research Laboratory and the UT Center for Autonomy focused on building safe and robust algorithms for autonomous systems which can operate in environments beyond where they were trained. His research interests include safe inverse reinforcement learning, environmental uncertainty quantification, open world learning, test and evaluation, and formal verification.
Resulting publications provide applied solutions to real world autonomous systems. Christian received both a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2024 for his dissertation titled, "Terrain Aware Autonomous Ground Navigation in Unstructured Environments Informed by Human Demonstrations," and a B.S. in Computer Science: Software Engineering in 2019 from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Contact Me
I am interested in research collaborations, professional advisory, and visionary propositions.