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Edmundo Sanz-Gadea

Founder

CTO at Helicon

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedHelicon

About

Edmundo Sanz-Gadea holds a BSc in Aerospace Engineering and an MSc in Robotics from TU Delft, and has trained diffusion models for robotic manipulation at ETH Zürich. His earlier work spans autonomous drones for infrastructure inspection, driverless race cars with MIT, and large-scale AI model training at BCAI.

CTO at Helicon

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Co-founders at Helicon

ANAlex Niehaus
Alex NiehausCEO

Experience

  1. HeliconCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. ETH ZürichMaster Thesis at the Robotic Systems Lab - RSL2024 — 2025Zurich, Switzerland
  3. Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)Foundation Model Training2024Renningen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  4. Delft University of TechnologyTeaching Assistant - AE2224-II Artificial Intelligence for Aerospace Engineering2023
  5. International Development of Technology b.v.Autonomous Drone Software Engineer2020 — 2022Netherlands
  6. MIT DriverlessAutonomous Racing Software Engineer2019 — 2020
  7. VSV 'Leonardo da Vinci'​Editor of Aerospace Journal 'Leonardo Times'2019 — 2020Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
  8. Formula Student Team Delft DriverlessAutonomous Racing Software Engineer2019 — 2020
  9. Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"​Automation and Mechatronics Winter School2020Saint Petersburg Metropolitan Area
  10. Deloitte NederlandDeloitte Academy Cybersecurity Training2019The Hague Area, Netherlands
  11. Delft Aerospace Rocket EngineeringTechnical Team Member2016 — 2017Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
  12. European Space Agency - ESATrainee at the European Space Agency Headquarters2014Headquarters. Paris, France.

Education

  1. Delft University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Robotics
  2. Delft University of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering
  3. ETH ZürichMaster Thesis at the Robotic Systems Lab
  4. Nanyang Technological University SingaporeMinor, Computer Science2018 — 2019
  5. Tsinghua UniversityDeep Learning Summer School, Artificial Intelligence2019
  6. Erasmus University RotterdamCS50X Introduction to Computer Science, Computer Science
  7. Universidad CEU San PabloHigh School2001 — 2016

Skills & more

PythonPyTorchROSC++CATIALaTeX

Languages Chinese · English · French · Italian · Russian · Spanish

  • Engineering Simulation with ANSYS — Cornell University
  • CS50: Introduction to Computer Science — Harvard University
  • Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) — Cambridge English

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