Leading dispatch and high-level planning for centralized fleet coordination, demand-aware routing, and optimization of autonomous on-demand personal rapid transit systems.

Built and guided a cross‑functional team to deliver robust robotics software, electronics, and control systems from prototype through field deployment of underground tunneling robots.

Directed multi‑disciplinary projects in robotic autonomy, guiding graduate and undergraduate researchers through development stages. Key research areas: collaborative robotics, fleet planning, online reinforcement learning for robot navigation.

• Created agile graph‑based obstacle avoidance methods for real‑time motion planning in highly dynamic environments.

• Built a 500 lbs rugged tracked robot with heavy payload capacity for off-road mobile robot testing.

Developed Unscented and Extended Kalman Filter frameworks for simultaneous state and parameter estimation in commercial HVAC systems.