Hi!

I am a robotics & machine learning engineer

I live in Chicago and work at Blue River Technology

Here you can find some of my life and work

TL;DR here’s my resume

I spent 6 years at Georgia Tech earning a BS in Aerospace Engineering in 2020 and a MS in Computer Science in 2022

In my free time, I like to do woodturning and archery. See some things I made here

Research

Cognitive Optimization and Relational Robotics Lab

The Wheelchair Tennis Robot team

We were developing a real-time tennis robot. The robot is comprised of a robotic arm and an RC wheelchair. I worked on the perception team designing a distributed computer vision algorithm for real-time tennis ball detection. We deployed the algorithm on a group of 6 Jetson Nanos with ZED 2 cameras to localize tennis balls and predict their trajectories. I also performed extensive testing to ensure sufficient range and detection frequency to enable a robot arm to be able to swing and hit the ball on a tennis court. The paper was published in IEEE 2023

Drone controlled by a small network attempting stable flight

Autonomous Control and Decision Systems Lab

In 2018-2019 we developed an early warning system for a ROS simulation-based car. We also tested the algorithm on a remote-controlled vehicle. I designed a computer vision algorithm that we trained to focus on regions of interest in a test track video. We monitored the uncertainty of the control algorithm and observed its much more gradual increase. This can be expressed as an early warning detection, which could be a trigger to switch to manual control mode in a situation, where time is of the essence. The paper was published in CoRL 2019

The wheelchair tennis robot, while manually operated

The Airplane Safety team

We were developing a system to safely recover the altered dynamics of a damaged aircraft. I successfully trained a network to encode aircraft system dynamics. I also deployed an MPPI algorithm to control this system in a simulation environment.

Vehicle stopping early after detecting an obstacle

Work experience

Blue River Technology

I work at Blue River on real-time perception, decision-making and monitoring software for multi-language applications using DDS middleware deployed on embedded compute platforms

Deutsche Bank

In 2019 I spent a summer working on two projects at DB. I was very excited to develop an ML model for a project to analyze financial news sentiment for stock market investors.

Major projects

pyxy.io

In 2021 I designed a recommender algorithm with a TSP solver to determine optimal personalized urban travel itineraries. I built a server written in Go, deployed it with Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform and created a React Native app to serve it. The app is now EOL, though I wrote a Medium article about it!

Other school projects

2021

I worked on improving a deep learning hate speech detection algorithm as part of a team.

I was part of a team where we compared DAgger and Actor-Critic methods in driving a simple model vehicle in varying environments. Check it out here.

2020

As part of a team, I built a price prediction model to help Airbnb hosts improve their listings.

I was part of a senior design project aiming to design a low-cost Mars mission to gather climate variation data.

Pre-2020

As part of a team, I outlined a design for an electrical grid drone inspection system.

I participated in a research project aiming to build a digital twin model of a university water cooling plant and optimize its operating schedule.

I performed image processing to determine a correlation between the drone pictures of Icelandic volcanic soil and localized ADP molecule concentration.

Other achievements

I was part of a team that won the 2020 AIAA Engine Design Competition, the report can be found here.