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 project comparing 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.