Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
Menlo Park, California, United States
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
Santa Clara, California, United States
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
Palo Alto, California, United States
• Documented, investigated, and condensed 6,500 file human machine teaming codebase
• Coordinated with researchers from MIT to demonstrate human machine teaming project
• Developed software tool to create and solve MDPs through a GUI in order to simplify testing many different robotic behaviors for human-in-the-loop demos
• Architected, developed, and demonstrated three human machine teaming hardware situations
• Architected, contributed, and integrated three keystone perception pipelines for 6DOF pose estimation and complex robotic manipulation tasks (Pointcloud, Pointcloud + 2D Object Detection NN, Pointcloud + Custom 2+3D Objection Detection NN)
• Developed skid steer control and odometry on embedded microcontroller
• Drafted circuit schematics for active temperature reference
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Torrance, California
• Establishing highly non-linear system identification workflow from limited data
o Enabling fast creation of accurate Extended Kalman filters
• Rapidly optimizing control laws with complex tradeoffs utilizing genetic algorithms
• Developing control laws robust to parameter uncertainty with strong disturbance rejection
o Goal: Halving the time to transition controller from simulation to real hardware implementation
• Actualizing high performance control laws for hydraulic rotary actuator and flow valve systems
• Conceptualized, designed, and automated mechanical and hydraulic aircraft test systems
• Automated data collection on 1000+ signals (Saving ~$100,000 in labor and error annually)
• Increased real time performance (+10%) of dual loop control system through HF rejection
• Designed hardware adhering to complex packaging and load cases (vibration, shock, & galling)
• Coordinated with contracted vendors to meet integration deadlines
2017 — 2017
2017 — 2017
Los Angeles, CA
• Designed, tested, and implemented precise attitude control system
• Fully operational, currently in-orbit
• Optimized spinning spacecraft spin-up times by 15% and improved torquing power budget by 5%
• Generated operation-critical extended-boom damping simulation model
• Developed and lead spring and damping characteristic test on flight model hardware
Education
UCLA
Master's degree
San José State University
Master's degree
UCLA