Greater Pittsburgh Region
Conduct routine maintenance on computer labs and printers and collaborate with the computing services team to troubleshoot technology issues for students, faculty, and staff across the entire campus.
Developed bare-metal C firmware on a MicroBlaze soft-core (Artix-7) to control a Hydra3D ToF image sensor via SPI, implementing a row-sequenced pixel acquisition loop for per-row sensor capture. Redesigned FPGA memory/address-generation logic to pack row captures into contiguous frames, eliminating Python-side stitching and reducing frame construction time from ~2 minutes to <1 second (120× speedup). Validated and debugged through Python SDK, Vivado/Vitis, and JTAG; authored technical documentation detailing architecture changes, benchmarking, and timing constraints for future hardware-level SPI integration.
Built high-fidelity robotics simulations for automated manufacturing using NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Python and C++, optimizing motion planning and system verification for industrial applications. Developed and tested robotic motion control strategies for Universal Robots manipulators, integrating real-time simulation and kinematics through NVIDIA Isaac Sim.