San Francisco Bay Area
A robotics engineer with experience in space systems, agriculture automation, and vision based localization & navigation.
- Robotics and computer vision spanning perception, manipulation, and ML - Taking systems from prototype to production: including a structured-light vision sensor and its software deployed across production sites nationwide and later re-architected onto depth cameras and ICP. - Adjacent work includes a Pi-0 Vision-Language-Action model running on a Franka arm with real-time cloud inference, ROS/MoveIt planning, the surrounding perception stack - Metric-learning system that fingerprints physical units from imagery alone on Google Cloud. - Breadth across the stack ranges from ADAS for a self-parking system to ISO 26262 safety analysis for an autonomous mobile robots.
- Worked with a corporate client in construction materials to scope automation and mass-customization opportunities in their manufacturing and inventory operations. - Analyzed inventory and mass-customization workflows to identify where automation could reduce cost and lead time. - Built the commercial case around it: market sizing, competitive analysis, and customer personas and journey maps to prioritize where to invest.
- Architected the perception pipeline, combining instance segmentation (SOLO, UNet) with object detection (YOLOv5) in PyTorch, and wired it into a ROS-based control stack. - Translated detections into manipulation targets for an autonomous mobile robot
Space robotics and precision motion systems - Designed a humanoid arm for autonomous control-panel operation, presented at the International Symposium on Human Spaceflight, Bangalore, 2020. - Design and integration of up a six-limb walk-and-roll planetary rover - Designed precision actuators and pointing mechanisms for flight payloads - Validated mechanism structures with FEA (Hypermesh-Nastran), predicting mass and modal frequency
- Researched and architected programmable, nonlinear lattice structures (Prof. Nicholas Boechler) for soft robotics and compliant mechanisms. - Presented at 4th International Conference on Phononic Crystals / Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Topological Phononics