Baker Herrin

Baker Herrin

University of Florida, Gainesville

👤 Short Bio

Hi! Welcome to my website. I’m Baker Herrin, currenlty a graduate research assistant supervised by Prof. Jane Shin in the APRILab (Active Perception and Robot Intelligence Lab), University of Florida, Gainesville.

My career interests are in deep learning, embedded/edge devices, robotics software (and their intersection).

Skills

  • Python, Embedded C, C++, MATLAB, VHDL, ARM assembly, LABVIEW/Teststand
  • Transformers, CNNs, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), Gaussian Splatting (deployed on NVIDIA GPUs)
  • PyTorch, Tensorflow, Git, MMDetection3D, Ubuntu Linux, ROS2, Gazebo, IsaacSim, Blender, Altium

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🎓 Education

University of Florida

  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering ——— Aug. 2022- Dec 2024
    Supervised by Prof. Jane Shin.

University of Florida

  • B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering ——— June. 2017- Dec 2021

📃 Projects

Robust Underwater Robots

Developing deployable underwater robots for tasks such as:

  • Mapping with Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
  • Collaborative diver-robot teaming

Publications

  • E. Baker Herrin, et. al, “SGD11: A Diver Gesture Recognition Dataset for Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration,” in Proc. ICRA 2025 AQ2UASIM Workshop, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2025.
  • E. Baker Herrin, et. al, “Modularis: Modular Underwater Robot for Rapid Development and Validation of Autonomous Systems,” in Proc. OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast, Biloxi, MS, USA, Sep. 2023. https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS52994.2023.10337059 Presented by author.
deployment
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🏭 Job Experience

  • Graduate Research Assistant ——— August. 2022- present
    Active Perception and Robot Intelligence Lab (APRILab) at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.

  • Applications Engineering Intern ——— July. 2024- August 2024
    Embedded Processing, Jacinto Software Applications at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, United States.

  • Research Intern ——— May. 2024- July 2024
    3D Change Detection at UF REEF, Ft. Walton, FL, United States.

  • Validation Engineering Intern ——— May. 2023- August 2023
    Analog Signal Chain, Transcievers validation at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, United States.

  • Validation Engineering Intern ——— May. 2022- August 2022
    Analog Signal Chain, Transcievers validation at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, United States.

  • Teaching Assistant ——— August. 2019- May 2022
    EEL311C Laboratory Instructor at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.