Casey Helfrich is a research engineer at the Intel Research Lab in Pittsburgh. He received a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 and an additional BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He joined the Pittsburgh lab in November 2001 when the walls were still being put up, and helped design and build the IT infrastructure for Intel Research. Casey has contributed to several Intel Research Pittsburgh Projects including Internet Suspend Resume, Diamond, Dynamic Physical Rendering, and Personal Robotics. His current focus is on the multi-threaded physics and programming simulator for DPR as well as the vision and graphics systems for autonomous robotic systems. Casey is interested in distributed systems, virtualization of hardware, and building research systems that truly work in the real world. Casey's main focus is taking novel technologies and making them robust and usable in the real world. He has represented the lab at several Intel Developer Forums.