Research
Machine learning, robotics, controls, protein engineering.
Workshops
- I teach hands-on engineering workshops.
- Learn CAD / Onshape by building a fully-functional model rocket with a GIF at each step.
Location
- Co-founder / CTO at a new stealth startup (AI / robotics)
- Previously:
- Machine learning scientist in the Vector Engineering Lab at the Broad Institute
- Senior roboticist at Boston Dynamics working on Spot’s Arm (teach Spot to play fetch with my tutorial!)
- Ph.D. from MIT CSAIL in the Robot Locomotion Group
- Alumnus of Olin College
Selected Posts
- Bash history finally done right
- Sequencing DNA in our Extra Bedroom
- Getting into Graduate School (Engineering / CS)
Publications
- Huang Q, Chan KY, Wu J, Botticello-Romero NR, Zheng Q, Lou S, Keyes C, Svanbergsson A, Johnston J, Mills A, Lin CY, Brauer PP, Clouse G, Pacouret S, Harvey JW, Beddow T, Hurley JK, Tobey IG, Powell M, Chen AT, Barry AJ, Eid F, Chan YA, Deverman BE. “An AAV capsid reprogrammed to bind human Transferrin Receptor mediates brain-wide gene delivery.” Science 2024. DOI: 10.1126/science.adm8386
- Huang, Qin, Albert T. Chen, Ken Y. Chan, Hikari Sorensen, Andrew J. Barry, Bahar Azari, Thomas Beddow et al. “Targeting AAV vectors to the CNS via de novo engineered capsid-receptor interactions.” PLOS Biology 2023. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002112
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- Andrew J. Barry, Peter R. Florence, Russ Tedrake. “High-Speed Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance with Pushbroom Stereo.” Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on High Speed Vision-Based Autonomous UAVs, Vol. 35, Issue 1, p. 52-68. 2018.
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- Andrew J. Barry, Helen Oleynikova, Dominik Honegger, Marc Pollefeys, and Russ Tedrake. FPGA vs. pushbroom stereo vision for MAVs. Vision-based Control and Navigation of Small Lightweight UAVs, IROS Workshop, 2015.
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- Andrew J. Barry and Russ Tedrake. “Pushbroom stereo for high-speed navigation in cluttered environments.” In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015.
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- Andrew J. Barry, Tim Jenks, Anirudha Majumdar, Huai-Ti Lin, Ivo G. Ros, Andrew Biewener, and Russ Tedrake. “Flying between obstacles with an autonomous knife-edge maneuver.” In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), video track, 2014.
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- Andrew J. Barry, Anirudha Majumdar, and Russ Tedrake. “Safety Verification of Reactive Controllers for UAV Flight in Cluttered Environments Using Barrier Certificates.” In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012.
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- Andrew J. Barry, Noah L. Tye, Mark L. Chang. “Interactionless Calendar-Based Training for 802.11 Localization,” In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, November 2010. (Recipient of National Science Foundation conference grant)
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- Elena Oleynikova, Nicole Lee, Andrew J. Barry, Joseph Holler, David Barrett, “Perimeter Patrol On Autonomous Surface Vehicles Using Marine Radar,” In Proceedings of Oceans ’10 IEEE Sydney, May 2010.
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- Andrew Barry, Benjamin Fisher, Mark L. Chang, “A Long-Duration Study of User-Trained 802.11 Localization,” In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments (MELT 09), 197-212, September 2009. (Best paper award, best presentation award)
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Theses
- Andrew J. Barry. High-Speed Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance with Pushbroom Stereo. Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016.
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- Andrew J. Barry. Flying Between Obstacles with an Autonomous Knife-Edge Maneuver. Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012.
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Patents
- Barry, DT, Barry AJ: Wireless Communication Systems and Methods. US patent No. 9,191,237 (2015).