Company: Exyn Technologies
Current position: Senior Robotics Software Engineer
Age: 28              
Education: MS robotics, BS computer and Information science, University of Pennsylvania

Hussein is responsible for ensuring the Exyn Nexys mobile mapping solution is capable of collecting the most accurate data possible to inform the mapping and autonomy pipelines. In short, she helps ensure the company’s robots can see where they’re going and process data intelligently.

Her primary focus at Exyn is optical and lidar sensor integration and calibration, which allows Exyn software to better align robot telemetry, lidar, and optical data collected during a 3D scan to more accurately generate a precise, feature-rich 3D point cloud for geospatial professionals.

As a child, Hussein was always interested in technology, taking computers apart (although putting them back together successfully came a little later). She became interested in robotics and AI because of Marvel’s Iron Man comics. After graduation, she started at Exyn, and on day one was handed a camera and was asked to write software to interface with it, Today, Exyn’s high levels of point-cloud accuracy and colorization can be traced directly to Hussein.