Alexander Roller

Background

Work and education.

Work

Founding Engineer

Nori Robotics (YC S26)

Jun 2026 – PresentSan Francisco, CA

Founding engineer at Nori Robotics, building early robotics product and engineering systems as the company brings NORI L2 toward launch.
Working across robotics software, product infrastructure, and hands-on robot bring-up in a fast-moving startup environment.

Undergraduate Robotics Researcher

Do Robotics Lab

Sep 2025 – Jun 2026Corvallis, OR

Continued research on bi-stable tape robot manipulation and reconfiguration, building on this paper.
Focused on characterization, repeatability, and controllability to guide follow-on prototype and controls work.

Robotics Intern

Hampton Lumber Mills

Summer 2025Willamina, OR

Built Sucky, a fully custom autonomous cleaning robot with a custom chassis and dual-cyclone vacuum system, using ROS 2 Humble on a Jetson Nano with hardware-accelerated NVBLOX + Visual SLAM (RealSense) and Nav2.
Developed custom hardware drivers for vacuum control, dust chamber door actuation, and shaker motor operation; built a lawnmower-style coverage path planner and mission-control interface.

Robotics Intern

Hampton Lumber Mills

Summer 2024Willamina, OR

Converted an industrial push sweeper into a fully autonomous mobile robot using ROS 2 Humble, SLAM, and Nav2.
Built custom hardware control for the motorized brushes using relays + a microcontroller, and enabled PS4 controller teleop alongside autonomous point-to-point navigation.

Education

MS in Robotics

Accelerated Master’s Program

Oregon State University

Expected Jun 2027

Part of the Do Robotics Lab, advised by Professor Brian Do.

Knowledge areas

Robot modeling + kinematics
Dynamics + control
Autonomy + learning-based methods

BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Minor: Computer Science

Oregon State University

Awarded Jun 2026

Knowledge areas

Circuits + electronics
Signals + systems
Digital logic + basic computer architecture
Probability/statistics for engineering
Math/physics foundations (calculus, linear algebra, differential equations)
CS minor: programming, data structures, discrete math, and upper-division CS electives