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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Research in autonomous science, active transfer learning, optimal decision making, and adaptive robotic exploration.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Adapting an agent-based simulation of cattle grazing to run on a robot in real-time.Interfacing the simulation with perception, mapping, planning, and control modules on the robot.Integrating with ROS and Gazebo and laying the foundations for digital twin use.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Led a section for System Dynamics and Control.Included a lab, tutorial, and grading.

Provo, Utah, United States

Improved techniques for Zinc impregnation of zeolitesDemonstrated effectiveness of H2S desulfurization using impregnated zeolites

Salt Lake City

Collaboration with a professor and team of TAs to run a mechatronics lab for undergrads.Duties include:Preparing lab equipment, directing lab exercises, grading lab assignments, and advising and assessing teams in a semester-long robotics project.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Design of control laws for quadcopter to intelligently navigate among tree branches.Data acquisition and analysis.System modeling.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Worked on the Guardian XO human exoskeleton with research into physical artificial intelligence and energy efficiency.Designing, developing, and programming of robots and robotic systems.Control laws and algorithms. Software development. Real-time systems.Circuit board programming and interfacing. Sensors and numerical techniques.

Co-created a group game app for Android called "Say What?", released on the Google play store.

Provo, Utah Area

Taught a variety of high-school and college students (at least 10 or so) physics and math, answered questions, and aided them in completing and reviewing assignments and preparing for tests. It was a fun experience and really improved my teaching, inter-personal, and negotiating skills.

Provo, Utah

- Personally created and maintained an interactive website used to post academic content for an organic chemistry course- Improved the efficiency and compatibility of the website for multiple users and browsers- Worked with a team to create the content (lecture videos and quizzes) that was put on the site- Organized and maintained the file system locally and on the server

Provo, Utah

- Investigated expansion of “room-temperature” laser-produced neutral plasmas created from He, Ne, and Ar- Ran, adjusted, and maintained a high-power, infrared, ti-saphire laser with femto-second pulses- Constructed complicated optical setups using optical and electrical devices including a switch circuit, an interferometer, optical phase delay stage, and CCD digital imagers- Constructed and maintained vacuum pumps and vacuum system- Used LabVIEW to conduct data collection- Used Matlab to process and analyze the collected data- Contributed to the final, published paper

Provo, Utah

- Graded tests and assignments for the PHSCS 121 course – Principles of Physics 1- Collaborated with the professor on grading procedures, teaching students- Instructed students in computational analysis and modeling using Matlab- Supervised their work and answered questions

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Robotics And Intelligent Systems

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics

Coursework included for formal mathematics minor.

Minor, Computer Science