Testing services team, simulation tooling

* Built a new application layer for HIL infrastructure, reducing average test duration by 50%.

* Improved reliability to integrate HIL into mainline CI/CD, enabling gating using resimulation latencies.

* Delivered an observability data pipeline, delivering insights for leadership and accelerating debugging.

* Worked on an intelligent robotics platform, e.g., (1) IDE-based developer tools and (2) simulation-based testing tools.

Vicarious was acquired by Intrinsic in May, 2022. More information about the acquisition can be found at https://intrinsic.ai/blog/posts/mission-momentum/.

* Led the effort to adopt service-oriented architecture to deployed robot applications and then collaborated to deliver human-machine interface integration, containerization, and application management command-line tools.

* Collaborated with Grasping, Motion Planning and Control teams to design, plan, and adopt service-oriented architecture on deployed components to improve application initialization/execution speed, robustness, and isolation.

* Designed and prototyped a line simulation testing system for testing robot fleet-level applications.

* Designed, built, and 3+ evaluated robot programming systems for non-roboticist developers with inspirations drawn from programming languages research and web development communities' work.

* Built and deployed end-to-end mobile robot and robot manipulator applications by reusing existing perception, planning and control, and UI components; evaluated the applications by conducting user studies.

* Communicated insights in 20+ publications and 10+ presentations at major robotics conferences.

* Recruited, trained, and mentored 14 undergraduate students and co-authored 5+ academic papers with 7 of them; two students started their own research projects which resulted in academic publications.