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Working to develop and test the electronics and their firmware in order to deliver the computation necessary for a robot capable of precision and efficient agricultural spray. I take pleasure in aiding Verdant's confrontation to the agricultural labor crisis and looming environmental and ecological effects of excessive pesticide use.

Working to develop under actuated, inexpensive, swarm robots capable of achieving tasks that are unachievable by a singular, well actuated robot. This project pushes the boundaries of biomimetic and cooperative robotics, while also working to produce a design that is affordable at large scale. My role is to develop a physical, custom legged milli-robotic platform consisting of a custom PCB, Raspberry Pi, motor driver, and chassis adopted from the Kamigami robot by DASH robotics. I also developed a motion tracking system using the ROS tool RVIZ, model-based reinforcement learning software for end-to-end adaptive control, and a wireless clock-shared communication system using ROS.

Instructing, tutoring and guiding about 800 students through Machine Structures, CS61C, covering: Operating Systems, Parallel Computing, C and Assembly Programming, CPU Data Path design, error-correcting codes and much more. As a student instructor, I led my own discussion section, tutored a room full of students in office hours, helped advise new student instructors on how to format their class, maintained the course website and live Q&A, and helped develop new course content for future iterations of the course to benefit from.

In a cafe environment, my role was to lead a team of six to ten employees in producing the highest quality product and service to our customers. This experience taught me valuable lessons in leadership, time-management, and communication, as well as gave me an opportunity to develop skills in hospitality and social engineering.