Resume
Experience
2026
Graduate Student Researcher
- Optimal control researcher in the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (JHU LCSR)
2025
Robotic Software Engineering Intern
- Designing, simulating, and implementing state estimation and control algorithms for multi-rotor drone perching in C++ and Python in ROS as part of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins LCSR and JHU Applied Physics Laboratory.
- Creating physics-based simulations of drone-mounted FMCW radar to test and validate state estimation.
Senior Design Team Member
- Collaborating with a team of 5 to develop a powered surgical tool to reduce hip surgery time and bone loss.
- Designing a mechanism to cut around a spherical path, optimizing for simplicity and path fidelity.
- Leading circuit design, software development of nonlinear state estimation and control system to implement redundant safety measures, estimating bone/blade interface temperature, vibration statistics, and tool slippage.
Social Robotics Research Intern
- Developed open source plant-inspired robotic objects for Human-Robot Interaction research.
- Designed compact chasis assemblies without threaded fasteners allowing for easy design iteration and replication.
- Implemented PID control and designed movement fundamentals to convey a range of expressions.
2024
Instrumentation Engineering Intern
- Spearheaded ground-up redesign of Raspberry Pi–based recording system, doubling recording capacity — Implemented modular design principles to facilitate easy maintenance and component exchange
- Presented posters, sourced components, created bills of materials, and rigorously documented assembly instructions for future publication, modification, and open sourcing
2023
Sensor Development Research Intern
- Designed a novel, granularly-jammed optical sensor for high resolution optical sensing in low-visibility environments
- Refined MATLAB-based photometric stereo imaging algorithm to reconfigure object detection system, improve Raspberry Pi integration, and enable micron-scale resolution
Education
Doctor of Philosophy: Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins UniversityAugust 2026 – May 2031 (expected) · Baltimore, MD
- Optimal control researcher in the Agile and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (AIRO)
Graduate Coursework
Master of Science in Engineering: Robotics
Johns Hopkins UniversityJanuary 2025 – May 2027 · Baltimore, MD
- Specializing in Dynamical Systems and Controls
Graduate Coursework
Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins UniversityMarch 2025 – Present · Baltimore, MD
- Minors in Robotics and Applied Math
- 2026 Whiting School of Engineering Dean's Design award winner for patent-pending acetabular cup extractor
- 2026 Mechanical Engineering Department winner for Best Capstone Design Presentation
- General and Departmental Honors
- Pi Beta Tau Honor Society
Undergraduate Coursework
Skills
Programming Languages
- Python
- Java
- C++
- MATLAB/Simulink
Control Systems and Robotics Theory
- PID
- Visual SLAM
- Kalman Filtering/State Estimation
- Full-State Feedback Control
- Controller Design
- Optimization
Hardware
- ARM/AVR Microcontrollers (Arduino, MG24, ESP32)
- Raspberry Pi
- Circuit Design
Sensors and Actuators
- IMU
- Encoders
- Vision Sensors
- Servo Motors
- Stepper Motors
- Solenoids
Manufacturing
- FDM Printing
- SLA Printing
- SLS Printing
- Material Jetting
- Laser Cutting
- Lathe
- Mill
- Soldering
Mechanical Design
- CAD (Solidworks, PTC Creo)
- Material Selection