Dr. Kadeghe Goodluck Fue

Senior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer

Full-Stack Autonomous Systems | Technical Lead | EB-1A Eligible

Visionary Full-Stack Physical AI Leader with 14+ years of architecting and deploying pioneering autonomous systems. I bridge the critical "bit-to-atom" gap, leading the design of custom mechatronic hardware (SolidWorks, Arduino) and optimizing real-time perception stacks (YOLO, Optical Flow) on edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson). Proven leadership managing $2M+ portfolios and winning international data science challenges.

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14+
Years Experience
$2.0M+
Portfolio Managed
35+
Publications
1st
Global Data Challenge funded by Amazon

Technical Stack Analysis

Comprehensive "Bit-to-Atom" Full Stack Competency.

Robotics & Control

🤖ROS 1/2 🧩SMACH 🏢Gazebo Simulation 👁️Visual Servoing 🔄Non-Holonomic Control 🗺️Motion Planning 🎯Modified Pure Pursuit 🎛️PID Autotuning 🦾Inverse Kinematics 📉MPC 📍SLAM-based Navigation 👓RViz 📦MoveIt! ☁️Fuzzy Logic Control 📐Differential Kinematics 📈Trajectory Optimization 🏃Whole-Body Control 🎮Teleoperation 🔫PyBullet 🧱MuJoCo

Machine Learning & Data

🔥PyTorch 📱TensorFlow Lite 🎋LightGBM 📏LinearSVR 🔍Object Detection ⏳Time-Series Forecasting 🎮Reinforcement Learning 🤝Ensemble Models 🌍Google Earth Engine 🧠Keras 🧪Scikit-learn 🚀XGBoost 🎨Generative AI (GANs/VAEs) ⚙️MLOps ⚡Apache Spark ➕Data Augmentation 🎲Bayesian Optimization 🤖Transformers (BERT/GPT) 🔄Autoencoders 🦙Ollama

Computer Vision

🧿OpenCV ⚡YOLO (v2-v8) 🗺️SLAM 🟩CUDA 🚀TensorRT 🌊Lucas-Kanade Optical Flow 🕶️Stereoscopic Depth (ZED) ✂️Semantic Segmentation ☁️3D Point Cloud 🔢PointNet 🧊Open3D 🏗️MVS 📷Visual Odometry 📐Homography Estimation 🎯DeepSORT ☁️PCL 🎨Image Inpainting 🔍Super-Resolution 📝OCR ✂️Instance Segmentation 📐Epipolar Geometry

Embedded & Hardware

🟢NVIDIA Jetson ♾️Arduino (C++) 🚜Hydrostatic Drive ✈️PX4 Autopilot 🚁Ardupilot 🛰️RTK-GNSS 📡LiDAR 🔗Multi-sensor Fusion 🥧Raspberry Pi 📶ESP32/8266 🚌CAN Bus ⏱️RTOS 🔋BLDC Control 📻LoRaWAN 🏭PLC 🐝Zigbee 🔌Modbus 🧪HIL Testing 🔉DSP

Languages

🐍Python (Adv) 🇨C++ (Adv) 📜JavaScript ☕Java 🔢MATLAB 📘TypeScript 🐹Go 🦀Rust 🐚Bash 🗄️SQL 📊R 🐦Swift 🤖Kotlin 🧠Prolog

Frameworks

🔥CodeIgniter ⚛️React JS 🅰️Angular JS ▲Next JS 🏛️Laravel ⚡FastAPI 🍃Spring 🌶️Flask 🎸Django 🦁NestJS 🚂Express.js 🌬️Tailwind CSS 🅱️Bootstrap 💚Vue.js

Professional Experience

Evolution from hands-on engineering to strategic technical leadership.

Principal Technical Program Manager

Sokoine University of Agriculture (HEET Project)
2021 - Present
  • Directing technical strategy for $2M+ World Bank-funded digital transformation initiative at Sokoine University of Agriculture.
  • Managing a cross-functional team of 8 principal Data and systems engineers.
  • Architecting HPC infrastructure and implementing DevOps/CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment latency by 40%.

Lead Robotics Research Engineer

YEESI & EPA Labs
2021 - Present
  • Founded electronics and precision agriculture lab (YEESI) and secured $157k USDA/NIFA funding for Machine Vision Project.
  • Developed offline Edge AI models (TensorFlow Lite) enabling real-time disease diagnosis.
  • Engineered "TanPredikt" yield forecasting engine using Google Earth Engine and LightGBM.
  • Spearheaded the spin-off AgriMfumo Limited (www.agrimfumo.co.tz) for soil testing electronics.

Lead Software Engineering Consultant

HYDROC GmbH
2022 - 2024
  • Developed a geospatial database engine for Songwe River Basin Commission.
  • Created Interactive Web Maps models for Flood Early Warning Systems.

Computer Vision Engineer (Research Scholar)

North Carolina State University
2020 - 2021
  • Developed "PhenoCV-WeedCam," a semantic segmentation pipeline using OpenCV and PyTorch.
  • Optimized algorithms for ground-based robotic sprayers to discriminate between crops and weeds under tight latency constraints.

Innovation Lab

Deep dive into key engineering contributions.

TanPredikt

Cloud AI

Time-series yield forecasting using Google Earth Engine and LightGBM.

Cotton Rover

Robotics

Full-stack robotic platform (ROS, C++, Python) with custom hydrostatic drive control.

Mwagilia App

Cloud AI

An app to schedule Irrigation using Satellite Imagery, advise on Fertilization using Drone Imagery, and a disease advisory system using LLM and CNN.

AkilimaTik Chat Engine

GenAI

Integrated into the Student Information System using FineTuned LLMs and RAGs to advise students and applicants on our university. Acts like a University Digital Representative.

Precision Planting System

Embedded

Developed a low-cost, open-source precision planting mechanism for smallholder farmers, utilizing GPS and custom stepper motor control.

AquaSense IoT Monitoring

IoT

An IoT-based system for real-time water quality monitoring in aquaculture and small-scale irrigation, using low-power sensors and a cloud-based dashboard.

Agri-UGV Fleet Automation

Robotics

Implemented autonomous mission planning and execution for a multi-UGV fleet used in agricultural mapping and spraying operations (PX4/ArduPilot, Python).

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Cloud / Arch

Architected and deployed an internal ESB for seamless, asynchronous data exchange between disparate institutional systems (ERP, SIS, Finance), significantly improving data integrity and reducing system integration overhead.

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering
University of Georgia, USA
2020

Focus: AI, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles.

M.Sc. in Ag & Bio Engineering
University of Florida, USA
2014

Focus: Automation & Information Systems.

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering & IT
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2011
Visa Eligibility

EB-1A Evidence (Extraordinary Ability)

Original Contribution

Invented a novel "Modified Pure Pursuit" control algorithm, cited by peer-reviewed papers and adopted as a benchmark.

Awards

Winner, Zindi "Outsmarting Outbreaks" Challenge, ranking 1st among 500+ global data scientists.

Judging Work

Reviewer for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and Computers in Agriculture.

Critical Role

Technical Lead for the $32M World Bank HEET Project at SUA.