Research Scientist - Roboticist
April 2023 - Present
Cambridge, MA
- Building the Agile Manipulation Platform (AMP) - a next-gen robot designed around dynamic, contact-rich manipulation
- In the meantime, I also advise Research Scientist Interns on projects ranging from hand design to robot sensors and planning
Applied Science Intern - Pick Team
September 2022 - March 2023
Berlin, Germany
Amazon Science Article
- Working on warehouse robot picking in confined spaces
- Hardware and software implementations for picking thin and/or hard to reach objects
- Band separation planning and control for opening up bin space
Visiting PhD Student (virtual internship due to COVID-19)
March 2020 - March 2021
TU Darmstadt - Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Technical Advisor: Prof. Jan Peters
Collaborators: Georgia Chalvatzaki, PhD., Carlo D'Eramo, PhD., and Daljeet Nandha
- Hybrid Model-Based control with Model-Free RL to accelerate optimal policy acquisition (Model Predictive Actor-Critic)
- Optimal Control (MPC and MPPI)
Biz3D Instructor
August 2016 - August 2017 (Summer Months)
- Facilitated learning at numerous summer camps for middle/high school students (~200)
- Developed a curriculum based on entrepreneurship
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the United States Department of Defense (DoD)
May 2016-July 2016
Auburn College of Engineering - Computer Science and Software Engineering
- UAV flight controllers
- Computer Vision Algorithms for See-and-Avoid applications
Test Engineer Co-operative Learning
May 2015-August 2015
Research and Development - Power Systems Power Generation (PSPG)
- Tested ABB Power Systems and Power Generation (PSPG) modules and components for corresponding tasks of implementation
- Constructed the largest test system ever built by the ABB Research and Development laboratory at the Wickliffe site