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Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, GA

• Represented the School of Interactive Computing in the Graduate Student Senate.
• Served as a Graduate Student representative on the Mandatory Student Fee Advisory Committee (Oct. 2020—present).
• Served as a Senate representative on the Joint Finance Committee (Feb. 2020—Apr. 2021) and the Joint Campus Organizations Committee (Sep. 2020—Apr. 2021).
• Chaired the Senate Committee on Strategic Navigation and Assessment (Nov. 2020—Apr. 2021).

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Summer 2022COURSE: CS 3790 - Introduction to Cognitive ScienceSpring 2022COURSE: CS 4497/6497 - Computational AestheticsSpring 2021COURSE: CS 4002 - Robots and Society
• Created and gave a lecture on robotics and privacy.Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, and Fall 2018COURSE: CS/MGMT/PUBP 4726/6726 - Privacy Technology, Policy & Law
• Teaching Assistant for four consecutive years.
• Head Teaching Assistant for two years.Spring 2018COURSE: ID (Industrial Design) 2510 - Introduction to Smart Product Design
• Served during the inaugural course offering.
• Instructed students in digital electronics and programming.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

COURSE: CS 3790 - Introduction to Cognitive Science

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

COURSE: CS 4001 - Computing and Society

Poughkeepsie, NY

• Independently designed, developed, and verified a data acquisition and filtering application for automated mainframe firmware defect identification.
• Received exemplary feedback from coworkers and management regarding application's potential for long-term usage.
• Implemented requested features into a custom test automation framework.

Bedford, MA

• Designed and implemented imaging feature shipping in camera-enabled iRobot products.
• Independently created a tool to reduce robot firmware flashing time by 75%.
• Designed and led the development of an in-house web application to facilitate future robot navigation technologies.
• Created a tool to repeatably configure any number of robots for in-home testing.
• Assisted in determining usage feasibility of a cutting-edge sensor for robotic navigation.
• Attended STEM events in the greater Boston area to inspire children to pursue robotics.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Developed fault-tolerant network performance testing suite for the Paradrop smart router platform of the WiNGS Lab.
• Coordinated with university staff to deploy ~15 Paradrop routers in a high-traffic university building.
• Operated network performance testing suite in high-traffic university building over six months.
• Rewrote Paradrop website content.
• Integrated new authentication technology into the Paradrop website.

Middleton, WI

• Verified the functionality, performance, and standards compliance of cutting-edge single-board computers (SBCs).
• Operated high-speed oscilloscopes to qualify interfaces such as DDR3, Ethernet, XAUI, Parallel NAND, SPI, I2C, RS-232, RS-485, and others.
• Operated environmental qualification equipment to verify product functionality at extreme temperatures.
• Wrote a comprehensive report for each SBC detailing its design, operational, performance, and compliance characteristics.
• Designed and implemented a novel test procedure for a protocol the company had never previously verified.

• Assisted with maintenance of thousands of physical and virtual servers.
• Optimized the team's virtual server deployment process.
• Assisted with core network infrastructure overhaul.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

In-progress

Certificate, Public Policy

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Specialization: Computational Perception and Robotics.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Wisconsin Robotics, Badger Robotic Mining Team, Wisconsin Engineer Magazine, Garage Physics• Two-term President.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science