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California, United States

Accelerating scientific breakthroughs in biology by helping biotech companies scale their experiments and workflows with robots. Our partners are developing cancer drugs, building machine learning models for biology, and addressing climate change.I work on creating flexible and robust robot actions, vision language models for increased reliability, path planning, simulation, managing deployments, AI for quickly programming robots using natural language, and generally enabling our products to be more useful for scientists and automation engineers.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Designing new technology Amazon's innovation incubator. Designing and prototyping systems, CAD, electrical prototypes, firmware, and analyzing systems in Python and Matlab.

Superior Township, Mi, Us

I led the mechatronics and controls team at New Horizons Studio, designing the controls algorithms and electrical systems for vehicles that can walk.

Superior Township, Mi, Us

Designed electro-mechanical systems architecture, wrote control software in ROS, and managed projects with technology partners to create Ultimate Mobility Vehicles. As the first engineer on the team, I also defined technical requirements, engineering strategy, and vehicle architectures.

Designed products for startups with a focus on electromechanical design, rapid prototyping, and proof of concept modeling. Worked in the aerospace and medical device industry with 3 different startups in this time. Also worked with Mark Rober on the Domino Robot video

Stanford, Ca, Us

Taught students how to thoughtfully design systems using back-of-the-envelope analysis, simulation, and rapid prototyping. Content included mass efficient design, finite element analysis, motors, gears, estimating energy losses in a system, and building a robot in a team competition.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Responsible for programming and care for the physical and emotional health of 200+ undergraduate students.

South San Francisco, Ca, Us

Optimized thermal systems for a highly automated indoor vertical farm based on simulation and experiments

Designed and created a robot to explore tunnels in an ancient temple complex in rural Peru. https://reut.rs/2SDmzKF

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led mechanical and electrical redesign of battery packs for improved mass efficiency among other mechanical and mechatronics projects. Full time work in the summers, part time consulting during the school years.

Led rapid prototyping of an app controlled vending machine.

Wrote firmware for a low cost computer for rural Nepal schools

Masters Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree With Distinction, Mechanical Engineering

High School Diploma