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I'd love to work with you! I am a passionate software (and sometimes hardware) engineer with a strong background in robotics, physical AI, machine learning, computer vision, and human-robot interaction (HRI). My primary interests are in developing assistive technology that blends software, hardware, and human factors to help make robots accessible to all.
I have experience in the full software and hardware stacks for manipulators and mobile robots. My core technical skills are in software development in ROS/ROS2, mainly in Python but sometimes in C++. I have a particular focus in computer vision, having implemented a projection-mapped spatial augmented reality system used across several research projects.
I currently work at a stealth robotics startup, where I create the tools and infrastructure to enable physical AI across a variety of embodiments. I built physics-enabled simulation environments of contact-rich manipulation tasks for humanoids and quadrupeds, enabling zero-shot sim-to-real transfer of reinforcement learning (RL) policies. The tooling I developed for end-to-end teleoperation, data collection, training, and deployment of vision-language-action (VLA) policies allowed me to train policies that enabled contact-rich manipulation for real-world tasks on a real humanoid robot. I also used my computer vision skills to build a vision pipeline for the detection and 3D pose estimation of elevator buttons using SAM 3 in conjunction with a VLM (along with some other CV tricks) in the span of 2 days. We couldn't find a single real-world case that broke it.
Working in research, I routinely work with statitistcal models to extract insights from large datasets. I also have experience with rapid prototyping using a huge variety of different technologies, with skills in CAD, electronics, and fabrication.
I have a number of peer-reviewed publications in the field of HRI on the topic of assistive technology, UI design, and augmented reality. Over my time working UMass Lowell's HRI Lab, I have had the opportunity to lead a team conducting human subjects testing.
Previously I was an intern at Rethink Robotics, where I designed and deployed custom software and electronics for prototype manipulators and industrial control devices. I also developed automation tools for deploying network infrastructure.