Timeline.
Everything in order, newest first. Each entry carries the date the work actually happened, so the whole path is visible in one place.
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2024 to nowGoogle (via AutoRoboto)Robotics Systems Engineer
Robotic systems for hardware security testing on Pixel devices.
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OngoingHome labEvenings and weekends
Low-cost SO-101 arms on the living-room table, learned policies, and finding out what those policies have really learned when they appear to work.
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2022 to 2024Peanut RoboticsRobotics Engineer
First job out of grad school. Owned the arm software stack on a commercially deployed mobile manipulator that cleans hotel bathrooms.
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2020 to 2022Carnegie Mellon UniversityM.S. Mechanical Engineering, Robotics
Research at CERLAB on robotic inspection of 3D-printed parts, alongside graduate coursework across perception, SLAM, planning and optimization.
- Feb to May 2022
MoonRanger lunar micro-rover perception - Dec 2021
Template alignment optimization 24-785 - Nov 2021
Symbolic planning 16-782 - Oct 2021
Planning for a high-DOF planar arm - Oct 2021
Catch me if you can - Fall 2021
Planning mini projects hub, 3 projects - Feb to May 2021
Tripawd, the three-legged robot dog - Spring 2021
Comparative analysis of visual and lidar SLAM - Apr 2021
Dense SLAM with point-based fusion - Apr 2021
Linear and nonlinear SLAM solvers - Spring 2021
SLAM using an extended Kalman filter - Spring 2021
Robot localization with particle filters - Spring 2021
SLAM mini projects hub, 4 projects - Fall 2020
Diabetic retinopathy detection via CNN - 16-720
Computer vision mini projects hub, 6 projects
- 2020 to 2022
Robotic post-processing of additive-manufacturing parts - All
Every CMU project
- Feb to May 2022
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2016 to 2020Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyB.S. Mechanical Engineering · Magna Cum Laude
Undergraduate mechanical engineering: a year-long assistive-robotics capstone that represented Rose-Hulman and the USA at the E²Festa in South Korea, plus controls, machine-learning and CAD coursework.