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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

Undergraduate research assistant in the Human Centered Robotics Laboratory under Dr. Luis Sentis. Leveraging symmetry in quadrupedal robots for efficient locomotion through reinforcement learning. Also developing a controller for multipedal robot to climb, grapple, and repair vessels in low-gravity environments.

Austin, Texas, United States

Teaching assistant for CS311H: Discrete Math Honors under Dr. Isil Dilig. TA responsibilities include leading discussion sections, grading problem sets and exams, and guiding students through course via online help and in-person office hours.

Austin, Texas, United States

Undergraduate research assistant in the ReNeu Robotics Laboratory under Dr. Ashish Deshpande. Worked on interfacing existing exoskeleton robots (Maestro and Harmony) with VR in Unreal Engine to develop haptic devices that can realistically respond to in-game objects in order to gamify rehabilitation.

Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Tutor Intelligence is a venture-backed robotics startup that develops artificially intelligent co-bots for contract packagers. Integrated and deployed LiDAR human detection for improved robot safety, implemented SAM2 computer vision segmentation for palletizing applications, created a tool to copy sections of the database for local development, and made.

New York, New York, United States

I worked on the Supportability Intelligence team to build supportability-rules-srv (SRS), a full-stack application that allows non-technical strategists to view and configure accurate, deterministic supportability rules for different types of merchants. SRS handles over 100k configured rules and will reduce ToS overturns by an estimated 20 reviews per.

San Francisco Bay Area

To enable schools to automate their lunch ordering process, I built an app in React Native and Firebase to streamline lunch ordering process at Lick-Wilmerding High School. App features include placing orders up to 14 days in advance, creating order presets, and easily editing menu using admin console (built with ReactJS). SimpleSubs is available for iOS.

Menlo Park, California, United States

This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in Meta University Engineering program on the web track. During the internship, I used ReactJS, ExpressJS, Firebase, and Elastic to build a recipe indexing app, as well as several smaller projects.

San Francisco Bay Area

I interned at Leadout Capital, a venture capital firm that backs “non-obvious” founders. I redesigned and built their new website using React/GatsbyJS, Netlify, and Contentful.

San Francisco, California, United States

CTO (main technical lead) of all-girls SF robotics team, the Missfits, and previously Head of Design for 2019 and 2020 seasons. Also featured in a documentary made by Stanford film student Ellie Wen. Beyond overall responsibility for the robot design, built and maintained team website and was robot driver at competitions.

San Francisco Bay Area

I worked as a youth intern on Cloudera’s QA team by building reporting tools in Python that were used internally by the company. I also won second place in company-wide hackathon.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science - Turing Scholars Honors Program, Minor In Robotics, Senior

Activities and Societies: Q++ (president)

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates

Activities and Societies: Computer Science Club (Leader), Hyphen-Hacks (Director of Finance), Orchestra (Concertmaster)

Computer Science