Experience

professional stuff I've done

Manipulation & Machine Intelligence LabUndergrad Researcher

Sept. 2024 - Present Ann Arbor, MI
  • Designed hardware & software for visio-tactile data collection pipelines; used DIGIT sensors & Intel RealSense D435/D405 depth cameras.
  • Created tooling for using NERF-based object models & FoundationPose to generate synthetic visual data for tactile signatures.
  • Building a contrastive model to learn visio-tactile representations of rigid and deformable objects.

ViamEmbedded Software

Summer 2024 New York, NY
  • Investigated & debugged failure modes for Viam's software module on the RasPi5
  • Developed a custom RasPi5 pin control library supporting PWM, GPIO, and pull up/down resistors.

EverestLabsRobotics Software

Summer 2023 Fremont, CA
  • Improved pick point accuracy for a 6DOF FANUC robot arm sorting trash / recyclables.
  • Built infrastructure for object height data collection and depth map generation.
  • Prototyped 6 different algorithms for determining optimal contact surfaces, using RANSAC, Segmentation, and other CV techniques.

ZiplineMechanical Design

Summer 2022 San Francisco, CA
  • Decided how site integration would be handled for Zipline's newest drone delivery platform, P2.
  • Designed initial prototypes for various drone serviceability concepts and ground support equipment.
  • Listed as an inventor on patent (D1091457). Filed in 2023, published in 2025.

Biorobotics & Human Modeling LabUndergrad Researcher

Aug. 2021 - May 2022 Atlanta, GA
  • Prototyped vascular access cannulation device to improve vein visibility during IV insertion for hypovolemic patients
  • Designed a body-conforming mounting system & added 2 additional DOFs for the Autospine, a robot performing radiofrequency ablation procedures.

ZiplineMechanical Design

Summer 2021 San Francisco, CA
  • Improved delivery accuracy for Zipline's first drone delivery platform, P1, by 30%.
  • Created standardized testing procedures for mass testing and package behavior analysis.
  • Identified failure modes across package, parachute, and payload bay. Fixes were implemented in production 1 year later.