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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Integrating the latest autonomous capabilities to jet-powered, edge-manufactured aircraft.Architected, implemented, and tested a robust autonomous runway landing control solution for jet-powered fixed-wing aircraft. Landing solution is resilient to high cross-winds (20+ [mph]) and requires no ground infrastructure or sensor.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Build and manage Teal's Autonomy Team. Currently hiring controls and robotics engineers.Own flight performance, robustness, and reliability. Create analytical tools to guide and measure continued performance improvement.Architect and implement estimation and control strategies for the Golden Eagle's gimbal.Design and develop Teal's autonomy engine to enhance the Golden Eagle's GPS-denied navigation and obstacle detection-and-avoidance capabilities.

Concord, California, Us

First employee. Manage the Reliability, Testing, and Integration team. Provide technical guidance to ensure feasibility of business requirements. Structure engineering efforts to maintain rigor in flight testing and technical documentation shared with the company at large. Conduct and define flight tests of new VTOL aircraft designs. Mentor and train incoming Flight Test Engineers as they support the company's various programs through design, testing, and deployment.Created the first versions of the company's core system-level design tools, VTOL aircraft physics models, and controls simulation environments. Was responsible for the engineering team that unlocked the company's first C10 and C20 demonstrations. Created and guided the creation of technical documents used in the training of operators and the building of the company's first production aircraft. Transitioned tasks and responsibilities to new team members and leaders as needed.My team was in charge of the M20 bring-up flight tests. As I departed Volansi to start at Teal Drones, my team was divided into three groups: GNC, flight testing, and firmware.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Developed system-level analysis tools (C++, Matlab) to predict performance of large-scale systems. Implemented and created multi-physics models based on first principles. Designed and developed high-performance computing software. Created statistical analysis tools for physics-blind system characterization.

I work with Prof. Antony Jameson on discovering provably stable, highly-parallelizable, high-order numerical methods and filtering techniques for hyperbolic PDEs with applications to Large Eddy Simulations. I am one of the chief developers of HiFiLES (hifiles.stanford.edu), open-source code for LES in unstructured grids written in C++/CUDA where our findings are shared. I have assisted in the writing of grants and grant renewals.

Moffett Field, California, Us

Designed, built, and flew modified versions of the DragonEye UAV. Team’s design was approved for flight by the NASA Ames Flight Safety Review Board. In charge of developing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities for the plane. Designed tests, selected motor-propeller combinations, and developed and implemented control laws to enable VTOL.

Implemented divergence-free, volume-preserving integration schemes to predict path of ocean debris.

Assisted students in the study and solution of problems related to elementary physics, calculus, and aerospace engineering topics.

Characterized piezo-polymer actuators. Built and tested actuators, and automated the experimentation process and data analysis.

Kraków, Pl

Performed research related to Telecom compliance with the Sarbane-Oxley Act. Created protocols for mapping processes from the eTOM standards to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) tailored to Comarch's activities.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aeronautics And Astronautics

Master'S Degree, Aeronautics And Astronautics

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering