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Benji Warburton

EECS at Stanford / robotics / systems / machine learning

Resume

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Portrait of Benji Warburton

I like working on projects at the point where software and hardware meet. Right now I'm working on robot manipulation, and restoring a 1990s electric truck (and getting it to drive itself).

  • currently Palo Alto, California

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incoming

Hardware Technology Intern

Apple

Advanced Technologies Group

current

Research Assistant

Stanford ARMLab

Working on end-to-end robotics systems

teaching

CS123 Teaching Assistant

Stanford Department of Computer Science

Developing and supporting Stanford's premier undergrad robotics class.

fellowship

Rise Fellow

Schmidt Futures

Built a low-cost robotics kit for elementary school kids

~/current-classes

CS224R Deep Reinforcement Learning
CS111 Operating Systems
BIO47 Evolutionary Biology

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CS 107E: Computer Systems from the Ground Up

built a console from scratch on a RISC-V SBIC. programmed malloc, graphics drivers, I2C protocol. Learned a lot

CS 123: AI Enabled Robotics

put together a robot dog and taught it to walk with RL. Returned as a TA

EE 118: Mechatronics

made a robot to do winter olympics style curling. implemented mecanum drive on arduino from scratch

~/recent-projects

ongoing

1990s Electric Truck Autonomy Build

restoring a 1990s taylor-dunn electric truck and turning it into a self-driving platform with modern controls, drivetrain and sensing

march 2026

Compositional Tool-Sequence Generation in Small Language Models

performed supervised finetuning on 0.6B parameter LMs to optimise for tool calls

february 2026

ios RGBD streamer

made an app to stream lidar and camera data to a computer as virtual webcams