Eitan Marder-Eppstein

Eitan Marder-Eppstein is a Senior Software Engineer at Willow Garage who sometimes finds himself doing research-related work. His current research interests include: autonomous navigation, mapping, and exploration for mobile robots; multi-robot coordination; and the software structure of robot action primitives. Eitan spends a good portion of his time maintaining Willow Garage's Open Source Navigation Stack, as well as helping out with various other Software Engineering tasks. He is also co-author of the actionlib library developed at Willow Garage to facilitate executive task management and coordination. It is never Eitan's intent to write a paper, but sometimes things work well enough that he has to.

Eitan received both his M.S. and B.S degrees in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, under the supervision of Bill Smart.