Zach Collins

Zach Collins has worked in various engineering roles since 2014. In 2016, they were a Mechanical Engineering Intern at Intralox, where they designed a conditioning tank in SolidWorks, ran testing for a gear train testing apparatus, and worked with VBA in Microsoft Excel to organize test results and track inventory. In 2014, they were an Undergraduate Researcher at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems. In 2015, they were President of the Mississippi State NASA Robotic Mining Competition Team, where they were responsible for ensuring that all of the different teams successfully collaborate together to build a competitive and successful machine. From 2017 to 2019, they worked at MONQ, LLC as a Product Development Engineer. Since 2019, they have been at Symbio Robotics, where they have served as a Software Engineering Manager, Principal Software Engineer, and Software Engineer. In their role as Principal Software Engineer, they led a cross-functional team of up to 12 engineers to develop Symbio's first vision-controlled line tracking application to successfully enter production. Zach also led the development of an application that uses 5-DoF position and velocity estimates from a vision system to dynamically control a 6-axis robot in real-time. In their role as Software Engineer, they developed a nut-running application for an Automotive OEM customer using Python-based real-time control of a 6-axis industrial robot with force sensing and learning for cycle time optimization and reliability improvement. In 2022, they will become the Integration and Test Lead at Robust.AI.

Zach Collins attended Mississippi State University from 2013 to 2017, where they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. In March 2014, they obtained a Certified SolidWorks Associate certification from DS SolidWorks Corporation.