William Tokumaru
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EH&S Safety Training
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Liquid Nitrogen Training
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Machine Shop Training
UC Berkeley
Experience
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Symbio Robotics
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United States
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Automation Machinery Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Staff Engineering Manager
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Dec 2020 - Present
Managed the Framework Team, focused on integrating with production systems and building out scalable robotics architecture.Managed 3/6 tech leads, whose projects generated millions in revenue.Defined and and maintained the company’s product roadmap with sales and marketing.Extended the product from a force control platform to one capable of vision-based line tracking.
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Principal Engineer
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Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
Project lead for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wOsjsAIeNUIt has run in production continuously since September 2020 and helped manufacture several 100,000s of cars, with no need for support past the initial deployment.Built a hardware-agnostic Robot API to support UR, ABB, FANUC, KUKA, Yaskawa, and Meca arms.Used Gaussian Process Regressor model-based Bayesian Optimization to minimize cycle time.
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Software Engineer
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Jun 2016 - Jul 2018
One of the first hires and primary developers through a $12M Series A and an $80M series B.Implemented Guided Policy Search to teach robots how to mesh gears and insert pegs.Built a real robot control stack with ROS1 for ABB and Universal Robots arms.
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Berkeley Lab
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United States
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant
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Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
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University of California, Berkeley
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Physics UGSI
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Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
Fall 2015: UGSI for Physics 111A: Basic Semiconductor Circuits Instrumentation and Electronics Lab Springhttp://instrumentationlab.berkeley.edu/Spring 2016: UGSI for Physics 111B: Modern Physics Laboratoryhttp://experimentationlab.berkeley.edu/Created both positions by convincing the department to have an undergraduate teach these labs for the first time.
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Sep 2013 - Jun 2016
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Cal Dining
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Cal Dining, Foothill
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Crew Lead
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Sep 2012 - Jun 2016
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Society of Physics Students
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UC Berkeley
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President
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Jun 2013 - Jun 2015
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Disabled Students' Program
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UC Berkeley
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Note-Taker
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Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
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Dhiban Excavation and Development Project
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UC Berkeley
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
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Self-Employed
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UC Berkeley
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Real Estate Broker
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Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
Helped over 30 students find affordable off-campus housing and personally organized deals for 10 of them, in two separate groups, with separate real estate agencies. Helped over 30 students find affordable off-campus housing and personally organized deals for 10 of them, in two separate groups, with separate real estate agencies.
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Education
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UC Berkeley
Bachelor's degree, Physics -
Thousand Oaks High School
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Moorpark College