Rayn Sakaguchi

Instructor of Robotics and Engineering/Computer Science

Durham

Joined NCSSM in October 2024

Rayn Sakaguchi joined NCSSM in October 2024 as Instructor of Robotics and Computer Science on our Durham campus. He was born and raised in Hawaii before making his way to the East Coast for school. He earned a B.S. in engineering from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Following that, he worked for Sikorsky Aircraft before leaving to pursue a Ph.D. at Duke University. His work at Duke focused on applying machine learning and computer vision algorithms to ground penetrating radar data in order to detect buried landmines. After earning his Ph.D., he worked for nine years at CoVar, a contract research company located in Durham. There he continued to apply machine learning techniques to various sensor systems across a wide range of applications. Outside of work, Rayn enjoys spending time with his family and indulging in an ever changing list of hobbies including, but not limited to: tinkering, rock climbing, playing pickup soccer or wiffleball, gaming, cooking, mushroom cultivation, chainsawing trees, and chopping wood.

BS, Engineering, Trinity College
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University