Leong Ko Ryan Jasper | Robotics & Embedded Software Engineer

About Me

▶ Background

I'm a Computer Engineering undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, currently working as a Robotics Software Engineer Intern at DSO National Laboratories, where I build agentic robotics software, simulation tooling, and autonomy systems.

My expertise lies in robotics software development, including task planning, visual-inertial SLAM, sensor fusion, embedded systems, and real-time pose estimation.

▶ Education

National University of Singapore

B.Eng (First Class Honours), Computer Engineering

2023 — JUN 2026

GPA: 4.75/5.0

Dean's List in all eligible semesters (2/2); Engineering Scholars Programme

Stanford University

Visiting Student (Exchange)

APR — JUN 2025

▶ WORK AUTHORIZATION INFO

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Experience

Robotics Software Engineer Intern

DSO National Laboratories ↗

Singapore

May 2026 — Present

▶Built an agentic robot task-planning harness inspired by SayPlan and LookPlanGraph, integrating local LLM tool use, DDS middleware, and hierarchical 3D scene graphs for spatial reasoning and closed-loop replanning
▶Developed low-fidelity robot embodiment simulators and DDS adapters for external simulators, enabling hardware-independent testing, scenario replay, telemetry, and end-to-end autonomy validation
▶Benchmarked 40+ compact language models for task success, tool-use reliability, inference latency, and resource usage, producing a reproducible evaluation pipeline for local and edge deployment

Robotics Software Engineer

ZeroshotData — Early-Stage Robotics Startup ↗

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2025 — Dec 2025

▶Built robotics infrastructure on GCP using Terraform and Kubernetes, deploying 20+ containerized services with CI/CD and FastAPI-based device registration, telemetry, monitoring, and fleet operations
▶Integrated visual-inertial ORB-SLAM3 into a UMI gripper using OAK-D stereo cameras, Kalibr camera-IMU calibration, Allan variance analysis, and synchronized sensor acquisition
▶Built Python applications for the end-to-end processing pipeline behind the SF Fold dataset across 100+ hours of robot-folding demonstrations, including video preprocessing, automated data validation, ORB-SLAM3 execution, review-video generation, Rerun visualizations, and Mosaic-based dataset sharding
▶Automated robot and sensor calibration using a Piper 6-DoF arm and prototyped infrared tracking with Arducam cameras, hardware frame synchronization, and Orange Pi compute
▶Engineered an electromagnetic full-body tracking system with a 1.5 m range, centimetre-level positional accuracy, and 5° rotational accuracy using custom PCBs, STM32 firmware, Helmholtz coils, and Onshape CAD

Research Engineering Intern

A*STAR — National Metrology Centre ↗

Singapore

May 2024 — Aug 2024

▶Built a Python measurement platform using PyVISA, Pandas, and Dash on an Orange Pi, and designed a Verilog FPGA frequency synthesizer achieving 6.5-9.0 ns timing precision