A multi-level formal framework for evaluating the safety of LLM-based embodied agents.
Embodied AI
LLM agents
Safety evaluation
Formal methods
I am currently working as a Member of Technical Staff at RoboForce and a student researcher at Stanford's REAL Lab, advised by Prof. Shuran Song. I studied Robotics at Northwestern University and will begin my Master's at Stanford in Fall 2026. During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kevin Lynch at the HAND ERC and Prof. Qi Zhu at the IDEAS Lab.
My research lies at the intersection of robot learning and system integration. My focus is on synergizing hardware–software–learning co-design, multimodal model architectures, and reinforcement learning to enable robust whole-body and dexterous manipulation. My goal is to tightly integrate sensing, learning, and control to develop robotic systems that are efficient, reliable, generalizable, and deployable in the real world.
Research
Inverse reinforcement learning that recovers reward signals under delayed observations and actions.
Inverse RL
Delayed observations
Reward learning
Distributed state estimation on matrix Lie groups with inverse covariance intersection, robust to intermittent measurements and time-varying communication topology.
Distributed state estimation
Matrix Lie groups
Sensor fusion
Multi-robot systems
News
My internship project at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab grew into a Science Robotics publication 🦿
Admitted to Stanford's M.S. program 🌲
Our paper UKF-ICI was accepted to ACC 2026 🎉
Left Tesla to join RoboForce and build robots for humanity 🤖
Began my first full-time job at Tesla ⚡
Graduated from Northwestern, magna cum laude 🎓
Experience
Education
Stanford University
09/2026M.S. in EECS
Northwestern University
09/2022 - 06/2025B.S. with honors in Robotics, MechE (3.947/4)
Industry
RoboForce
10/2025 - Present · Milpitas, CAMember of Technical Staff — AI & robotics
Tesla — Energy R&D
07/2025 - 10/2025 · Palo Alto, CATest Hardware Controls Engineer — internal software
Ginkgo Bioworks
06/2024 - 09/2024 · Emeryville, CAIntern — system integration & CV
Tesla — Power Electronics
01/2024 - 05/2024 · Fremont, CAIntern — software automation
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
06/2023 - 08/2023 · Chicago, ILIntern — robotic control
Skills
💻 Programming
Python
C/C++
Java
MATLAB / Simulink
SQL
🪄 Dev tools
Git
Linux
ROS
PyTorch
IsaacGym
MuJoCo
🔩 Hardware
CAD
MCUs
3D printing
PCB design
PLC
UART / I2C / SPI
CAN / RS485 / EtherCAT
Projects
Robotic Dexterity Hand
An 8-DOF robotic hand with SEA force sensing, custom BLDC motor drivers, and ROS 2 hand-tracking teleoperation.
KUKA youBot Pick and Place
Mobile manipulation with screw-theory trajectory generation and PI feedback control.
Vision Pro Simulator
Real-time gesture-controlled photo manipulation with custom MLP and LSTM models, trained in under 90 seconds on CPU.
Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Transparency Control
Transparent haptic rendering with near-zero interaction force and less than 10 ms delay.
Line-Following Robot
A 4 m/s embedded line follower with PID control and a Wi-Fi command link.
Planning & Control with Vehicle Dynamics
Overtaking, crosswalk, and parking maneuvers from a dynamics-based planner and controller.
Search Algorithm Visualization
An interactive C++ visualizer for A*, Dijkstra, and BFS over multiple distance metrics.
2R Robot Impact Simulation
Lagrangian mechanics of elastic impact with RK4 integration and gravity compensation.
Exploding Wild-Kitten Boardgame App
A test-driven multiplayer card game with 100% coverage and a hardened CI/CD pipeline.
Service
Reviewer for IEEE RO-MAN 2026
Grader for GEN_ENG 205-3 Engineering Analysis 3 (Modeling and Dynamics)
TA for CS 111 Fundamentals of Computer Programming I
Student consultant for Chicago Field Studies (Student Internship Program)
Executive at the Northwestern Badminton Club
Mentor for FRC Team 6487