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Dr Martin Peniak

Research and engineering across robots, cameras, coordinates, and place.

Dates, roles, and technical areas kept concise. The fuller narrative lives on Story, and the documentary record lives on Sources and Talks.

Profile

Robotics roots, deployed vision, and spatial systems.

Engineer and researcher whose work spans iCub humanoid robotics, CUDA-accelerated cognitive robotics, the Aquila toolkit, ESA autonomous rover research, Cortexica machine vision and edge AI, and later applied computer vision and spatial systems work.

Primary records

Six quick anchors.

Experience

Timeline.

Later industry work in applied computer vision and spatial systems

Senior innovation and prototyping across camera networks, edge inference, spatial calibration, synthetic scenes, and place-aware vision work. Public examples sit on Work, Sources, and Talks.

Head of Innovation – Cortexica Vision Systems

Research-to-working-systems innovation across machine vision, edge AI, mobile inference, AR/VR prototypes, and applied computer vision.

Senior Parallel Computing Software Engineer – Cortexica Vision Systems

GPU/OpenCL/CUDA optimization, high-performance image-processing pipelines, deep learning experiments, cloud systems, and edge deployment work.

Associate Lecturer of GPU Programming – University of Plymouth

CUDA and parallel-programming teaching, GPU computing lab work, and research infrastructure for cognitive robotics, including the early NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center contribution at Plymouth.

NVIDIA research internship and CUDA robotics period

Research internship context connected to the Plymouth iCub work, Santa Clara HQ presentation, CUDA spotlight, GTC 2012 poster, GTC 2014 presentation, and SC11 keynote reference.

2012 NVIDIA intern badge for Martin Peniak

NVIDIA

An object from the CUDA robotics years.

The original 2012 NVIDIA intern badge sits beside the public sources from that period: the invited Santa Clara HQ presentation, NVIDIA CUDA spotlight, GTC poster on GPU-accelerated action acquisition, GTC 2014 presentation, and SC11 keynote reference. Together they connect the Plymouth iCub research to the early GPU-computing period.

Education

Academic foundation.

2014

PhD – GPU Computing for Cognitive Robotics

University of Plymouth. Cognitive robotics, iCub humanoid learning, action-language acquisition, GPU/CUDA acceleration, complex neural networks, and computer vision.

2006-2007

Life in the Universe

University of Manchester distance-learning astronomy course completed during the Plymouth work-study period.

Martin Peniak with the iCub humanoid robot during robotics research

Technical areas

Selected technical areas.

  • iCub and action-language learning
  • GPU acceleration for cognitive robotics
  • Aquila and modular CPU/GPU tooling
  • Edge computer vision under physical constraints
  • Multi-camera spatial calibration and place-aware records
  • C++, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenCV, Python, and local tools

Site map

The CV connects back to the work.

The CV stays compact; the sources, talks, and work pages carry the deeper material.