Experience

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Advised by Dr. Samuel Coogan and Dr. Magnus Egerstedt
• Research on coverage control for constrained heterogeneous multi-robot teams

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Robotics Education Lab Manager

• Established the Advanced Robotic Manipulation (ARM) Lab, an educational testbed of multiple robot-arm stations, managing all phases from budget planning, procurement, and layout design through installation, hardware calibration, and software integration
• Developed custom hardware emergency-stop buttons using physical switches and a custom-programmed microcontroller, integrated into the robot SDK
• Containerized the entire software stack to improve reproducibility and consistency across all stations
• Built a fleet-management framework supporting remote power control, over-the-air (OTA) updates, teleoperation, and centralized data collection
• Created course projects spanning simulation and hardware, covering point-cloud registration, pick-and-place, torque control, gravity compensation, hybrid force-position control, and imitation learning

Graduate Research Assistant

• Research on control algorithms for multi-robot teams
  • Designed a multi-robot coordination algorithm for robots with heterogeneous sensing capabilities to achieve optimal coverage under communication, accessibility, and collision-avoidance constraints
  • Designed a safe coverage control algorithm for deploying robots with heterogeneous mobility characteristics across multi-terrain environments
  • Developed a control algorithm achieving temporally optimal coverage by leveraging the different actuator limits of the robot team
  • Investigated a priority-based task allocation, scheduling, and execution framework for heterogeneous multi-robot teams
• Full-stack multi-robot system development
  • Developed GTernal, a robot design for the autonomous operation of a multi-robot research testbed, including onboard collision avoidance based on control barrier functions and time-of-flight sensors
  • Led the production of 40 GTernals to replace the GritsBot X robots in the Robotarium
  • Led the transition of the Robotarium publish-subscribe framework from MQTT to ROS2 (Python/MATLAB backend, robot firmware, and motion-capture interface)
  • Mentored undergraduate students in building a multi-robot system capable of manipulating physical objects

Visiting Graduate Student

• Established a Robotarium multi-robot testbed at UC Irvine, integrating user APIs (Python, MATLAB), robot firmware (C++, Python), and a Vicon motion-capture system via MQTT
• Designed an area coverage controller for aerial robots with downward-facing cameras to optimally monitor a region based on joint probability of detection

Inverter Controls Engineer

• Implemented field-oriented control (FOC) algorithms for 3-phase PMSM compressors in building HVAC systems (C)
• Developed control algorithms to stabilize the DC-Link of an interleaved PFC (C)

C-Lab (Creative Lab) Engineer

• Selected via a new-product idea competition to work on product planning
• Researched and prototyped a new bedroom appliance, leading circuit development and control

Inverter Controls Engineer

• Developed control algorithms for 3-phase sensorless PMSM compressors for system air conditioners
• Developed control algorithms for interleaved PFC

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