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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

- Design cvxRiskOpt: a tool to simplify encoding risk-based optimization problems.- Set up a multi-agent robotic platform and perform physical experiments for multi-agent path finding (MAPF).

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

- Develop data-driven motion planning solution for robots under prediction uncertainty to ensure safety in edge cases - Design sampling-based and optimization-based motion planning algorithms using risk metrics to address uncertainty- Synthesize controllers that satisfy temporal logic specifications (STL) for systems affected by process noise- Manage the lab hardware and mentor student projects developing RC car and quadrotor autonomy stacks- Collaborate with researchers from academia and industry resulting in several publications (ACC, IROS, LCSS, Elsevier)

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

- Designed autonomous driving RC car testbeds and implemented Lidar and vision-based navigation algorithms usingROS, Python, OpenCV, and Arduino- Developed a vision-based multi-agent control stack for differential drive robots using MATLAB, C++, and OpenCV- Assisted PhD students with research paper experiments resulting in three publications (ICRA, T-RO, TCST)

Greater Boston Area, Ma, Usa

- Deployed a novel planning and decision making algorithm on autonomous driving RC cars using MATLAB- Trained PyTorch reinforcement-learning (RL) models for motion planning- Designed an MPC safety filter for multi-agent motion planning guaranteeing safety under process, estimation, andmeasurement noise and deployed it on a team of quadrotors using Python and ROS- Collaborated with researchers and published an ICRA paper and submitted two journals and a patent

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Electrical Engineering, 4.0

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering, 4.0

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering, Major Gpa: 4.0, Cumulative Gpa: 3.99

Electrical And Computer Engineering, 3.83