My Robot Side
I’m a robotics engineer whose work focuses on behavior planning for autonomous vehicles. I currently work at NVIDIA as a Senior Autonomous Vehicles Behavior Planning Engineer. Previously, I led the Trajectory Selection component at AutoX, worked on behavior planning for Waymo’s trucking team, and contributed to model verification for safety-critical systems in MathWorks’ Simulink Code Inspector.
I earned an M.S. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, where I researched motion planning and task allocation for heterogeneous multi-robot systems under the supervision of Prof. Katia Sycara. I also interned with Uber ATG’s motion-planning team, focusing on trajectory optimization.
I received a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics, with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2018. There, I worked with Prof. James Allison, Prof. Randy Ewoldt, and Prof. Elif Ertekin on structural optimization, viscoelastic material design, and shape-memory alloy simulation and design. I published two first-author conference papers during my undergraduate years; they are included in the Research section of this website.
My Human Side
Outside engineering, I spend my time traveling, playing sports, taking photographs, drawing, experimenting with pixel art, and writing. I have also begun learning playwriting and completed Death Control, a 15-minute one-act play. These projects live under Here and There—a record of the things I make and the places I want to remember.