Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
• Fully established as Platform Acoustics Component lead for the Cruise custom silicon program and the ridehail program, creating and executing quarterly objectives with Cruise teams and external vendors
• Commanding expertise of the A2B framework for development of features and maintenance of hardware/software in Acoustics across all vehicle programs
• One of two ICs on eFPGA development used in Cruise's custom silicon programs, and specifically supporting as the eFPGA Acoustics Lead
• Designing and executing regression testing across all sensor programs to improve efficiency in test development and increase test coverage
• Building quarterly execution plans for all acoustics hardware (boards, microphones, ultrasonics, touch sensors) to meet hardware and software requirements for milestones, and delivering them to completion across various Robotics teams, including Component Testing, Systems Testing, Hardware in Loop, ES Acoustics, HW Acoustics, and Manufacturing
• Bringing up and validating acoustics hardware and developing the necessary Linux device drivers to meet milestone and feature requirements
• Collaborating with acoustics vendors for sourcing, bringup, verification, and debugging of sensor hardware
• Leading knowledge sharing sessions on various technical topics with the Accelerators team and Embedded Systems department
• Driving the Cruise mission as a member of the Culture Accelerators program
• Representing Cruise at various speaking engagements
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
• Acted as Platform Acoustics Component lead for the Origin program and the ridehail program, creating and executing quarterly objectives with Cruise teams and external vendors
• Brought up, verified, and developed DSP features for the ultrasonics sensor program
• One of two ICs on eFPGA development used in Cruise's custom silicon programs, driving development of FIFO modules and accompanying testbenches
• Built quarterly execution plans for all acoustics hardware (boards, microphones, ultrasonics, touch sensors) to meet hardware and software requirements for milestones, and delivered them to completion
• Brought up and validated acoustics hardware and developed the necessary Linux device drivers to meet milestone requirements
• Led knowledge sharing sessions on various technical topics with the Accelerators team and Embedded Systems department
• Delivered acoustics features for two-way calling, emergency vehicle detection, and collision detection for the Origin program
• Coordinated board development and feature validation across various Robotics teams, including Component Testing, Systems Testing, Hardware in Loop, ES Acoustics, HW Acoustics, and Manufacturing
• Collaborated with acoustics vendors for sourcing, bringup, verification, and debugging of sensor hardware
• Initiated as a member of the Culture Accelerators program, which develops and empowers participants to model inclusive behaviors and allyship and to draw out those behaviors in others to create a more inclusive culture
• Represented Cruise at various speaking engagements
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and delivered acoustics FPGA features to improve data quality for two-way calling, emergency vehicle detection, and collision detection for the Origin program
• Transitioned into the Origin acoustics program as component Lead for FPGA development
• Developed FPGA and kernel framework features to execute two-way calling
• Led validation for two-way calling, collaborating across ES Devices, Component Testing, Systems Testing, Hardware in Loop, Vehicle Integration, and HW Acoustics teams
• Validated acoustics boards to meet manufacturing and feature milestones
• Solved bugs to unblock Acoustics manufacturing for the Origin program, and started Embedded Systems conversations with the Operations and Manufacturing teams to streamline this process
2021 — 2021
Mountain View, California, United States
• Member of the Think Tank Team, ideating and prototyping ideas and future strategies for Samsung business opportunities
• Collaborated with a team of 10 other researchers on a commercial robot
• Assembled motorized servos and adjusted robotic control system design
• Investigated sensor viability for a sustainable electronics project
Education
Cornell University
Master's degree
Cornell University
Bachelor of Science
Stuyvesant High School