• Building and maintaining safety-critical robotics software across multiple interacting subsystems

• Improving system robustness, monitoring, and fault handling through debugging and observability work

• Analyzing metrics and tuning system behavior to balance performance, safety, and reliability

• Wrote C++ software for driving surgical instruments on the Monarch robotic platform designed to assist with endoscopy procedures

• Provided rapid prototypes to test new ideas for controlling the surgical instruments and motion planning for the multi-DoF robotic arms

• Quickly debugged issues from real surgical procedures based on robot data and worked with a cross-functional team to develop corrective and preventive actions

• Improved functionality and consistency of automated Python tests of simulated surgical procedures in the CI/CD pipeline

• Improved state machine logic to better control the actions of multiple instruments

• Trained and led lab staff in teaching a variety of robotics topics through hands-on lab assignments as Head Lab TA (Fall 2021)

• Guided students through advanced robotics projects and facilitated discussions about recent robotics publications as a Lab TA (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)

• Guided students through ROS lab assignments as a Lab Assistant (Fall 2020)

• Designed an untethered soft sensor to determine the hardness and shape of objects

• Built a model to simulate sensor readings for the instrument device manipulator of a robotic platform designed to assist with endoscopy procedures