Service, Involvement, and Awards
Things I'm particularly proud of :)
W7. Co-Organizer: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025 Dexterous Manipulation Competition
https://2025.ieee-icra.org/competitions/#roboticgrasping
W6. Co-Organizer: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025 Workshop
"Workshop on Mechanisms in Robot Manipulation: Challenges and New Opportunities"
https://sites.google.com/theaiinstitute.com/icra-2025-mechanisms-for-manip/home
W5. Co-Organizer: Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024 Workshop
"2nd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation: Design, Perception, and Control ”
https://dex-manipulation.github.io/rss2024/
W4. Co-Organizer: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 Workshop
"Second Workshop on Compliant Robot Manipulation: Challenges and
New Opportunities”
https://sites.google.com/yale.edu/icra2023-compliantmanipulation/
W3. Co-Organizer: Robotics: Science and Systems Pioneers Workshop 2023
Web Chair
https://sites.google.com/view/rsspioneers2023/
W2. Lead Organizer: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022 workshop
"Compliant Robot Manipulation: Challenges and New Opportunities”.
https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2022-compliantmanip/
W1. Co-organizer: New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS) 2018 workshop
“Yale Openhand Fabrication”.
https://github.com/grablab/Yale-OpenHand-Workshop-2018
- Robotics Science and Systems (RSS)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- ASME Journal on Mechanisms in Robotics (JMR)
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
- IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH)
- International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Over the years, I have tried to stay heavily involved in STEM outreach. From Flipped Science Fairs -> Science in the News lecture series -> 3D printing courses for middle schoolers -> bringing robots to high schools and universities.
In one recent outreach expedition (April 2024), I took Spot from Boston, MA -> Youngstown, OH.
WKBN
Business Journal Daily
Tribune Chronicle
Mahoning Matters
The Jambar
RSS Pioneers 2022
1 of 30 selected as "the world's top early career researchers"
in Robotics
Nominee for the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Sceince
Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for Exceptional Research Achievement
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Nominee 2022
Editor's' Top 5 Picks of 2021: Science Robotics
"Manipulation for Self-Identification, and Self-Identification
for Better Manipulation"
Cover Article: Science Robotics. May 2021.
"Complex manipulation with a simple robotic hand through
contact breaking and caging"
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Finalist for Best Paper in Manipulation
"Pre-Grasp Sliding Manipulation Planning of Thin Objects Using
Soft, Compliant, or Underactuated Hands"
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Finalist for Best Paper in Manipulation
"Learning Modes of Within-hand Manipulation"
National Science Foundation Emerging Researchers National
Conference (ERN)
Second Place in Computer Science and Information Management
“Computer Vision ‘See and Avoid’ Simulation using OpenGL
and OpenCV”
Harding Bliss Graduate Prize 2023
Selected as the graduating doctoral student who has "done
the most to further intellectual life at Yale SEAS"
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Robert E. Apfel Graduate Fellowship (Yale University)
Tau Beta Pi Fellow
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention
National Barry M. Goldwater Scholar
National Tau Beta Pi Scholar
Youngstown State University Scholars Program USXXI
Full-Funded Academic Merit Scholarship
Ohio State Senate Recognition Award
Ohio State House of Representatives Recognition Award
ΦΚΦ National Honor Society
ΠΜΕ National Math Honor Society
ΤΒΠ National Engineering Society
Gould Honors Society (YSU's Phi Beta Kappa)