I've been coding since I was 12 and have picked up a wide range of software skills along the way. These days, I'm focused on deep learning for robotics perception and control working independently while doing research at University of Washington.
Trained in My Gym
Humanoid robots trained to mimic a range of human animations with deep reinforcement learning. Code is available here.
Publications
Projects
Humanoid robots trained to mimic a range of human animations with deep reinforcement learning using the Unitree G1.
Developed a large diffusion-based try-on model allowing users to virtually try on clothing from any store with this app on iOS, Android, and Chrome.
Open-source observability and DAG-execution framework for building highly parallelized AI-driven data processing pipelines.
Fishing automation in World of Warcraft using Computer Vision methods with Python and OpenCV.
Work
Technical Founder; ML Engineer
Heddle AI, Inc.
Aug 2023 - Aug 2025
Aug 2023 - Aug 2025
Founded an AI startup focused on building a large virtual try-on model. From research papers to product, I curated a large dataset and developed the model to support Wear, a virtual try-on app that allows users to see how clothes will look on them before buying.
Software Development Engineer
Maxar Technologies
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Worked on distributed systems to ingest, archive, and process satellite imagery, contributing to geospatial intelligence solutions. Designed deepfake detection pipelines and developed internal tools to optimize data processing workflows, improving efficiency and accuracy in satellite image analysis.
Software Engineer Intern
Ultimate Software, Inc.
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Interned at Ultimate Software, where I contributed to the development of HR software and automated testing tools.
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Feel free to contact me at rsamfranklin@gmail.com