Enabling simulation of physics-based sensors, such as lidar and radar, for autonomous systems by leading the design and development of CPU and GPU ray tracing technologies.Improved simulation performance by more than five times by rearchitecting tightly coupled legacy algorithms to operate highly concurrently and leverage high-performance ray tracing kernels.

Enhanced vehicle simulations by automatically generating virtual scenarios based on hundreds of real-world roads in seconds by pioneering tools to synthesize road network models from web map services.Improved wireless communication models for complex urban environments by authoring computational geometry algorithms to compose 3-D environments from crowd-sourced map data.Enabled development of automated driving applications with high-definition road, lane, and localization map data by developing a programmatic interface to access and visualize tiled map layers from a web service.

Enhanced post-processing workflows for collected vehicle data by developing tools to visualize geographic data on a traveled route. Automated labeling of humans in ground truth image and video data by integrating a pretrained machine learning model for upright people detection using aggregate channel features.Supported customers on a wide range of complex technical issues in MATLAB & Simulink product families in the areas of control systems, signal processing, and code generation.Promoted team and customer success by coaching engineers through technical and operational challenges.

Assisted students with the analysis and logical implementation of manually tuned and model-based controllers for dynamic systems in LabVIEW.Configured and maintained sensors, actuators, circuits, and mechanical elements of machines used by students for control design experiments.

Researched flight control methods on micro aerial vehicles to replace the traditional control surfaces with synthetic (zero net mass flux) jets.Designed, fabricated, and implemented experimental setups to study synthetic jets in crossflow by utilizing hot-wire anemometry in a subsonic wind tunnel.Created LabVIEW programs to characterize incoming flow on a single-sensor hot-wire probe and determine the center of the flow.