Reliable Robotics

Software Engineering Intern

Mountain View, CA

2025

Reliable Robotics makes autonomous cargo aircraft. I worked on building and verifying a prototype aircraft perception system to enable obstacle avoidance and alerting with Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation and actual autonomous flight tests.

Applied Materials

Software Engineering Intern

Santa Clara, CA

2024

My team worked on dielectric deposition tools, which deposit the tiny layers of insulator that separate components of transistors on microchips. I automated liquid flow control tuning for these tools using nonlinear SQP optimization to reduce calibration time by many hours for a large semiconductor foundry.

Vermeer Corporation

Software Engineering Intern

Pella, IA

2023

My team worked on an experimental robot to autonomously move 1-ton hay bales from fields to trucks. Designed algorithms using LiDAR perception and YOLOv5 in ROS to track bales and humans, created robot linkage model and PID controllers for hydraulic actuators to grasp bales, and verified algorithm edge cases in simulation.

Evaluated multimodal LLMs on false-belief recognition in a live robotics context (robot Costco sampler-giver), advised by Prof. Sonia Chernova.

Found that transformer attention patterns have a hierchical structure and reflect somewhat human-like semantic clustering on the category fluency task (eg. list as many animals as you can in a minute). Advised by Prof. Sashank Varma.

Created a difficult LLM reasoning benchmark presented at NeurIPS workshop (99 citations)

Developed a CV pipeline to detect temporally varying stars in Andromeda. Pipeline used in various projects and published in Astrophysical Journal (APJ).

An application to record computer use data and replay it precisely. Useful for computer-use model training.

Trained a CV model to identify different types of algae from samples of sea urchin gut contents to quantify impact to kelp forests in Monterey Bay.

Built inverse kinematics controls for a 4-DOF arm to 3D-image plants. Allowed for constrained camera poses by aligning to canister ARUCO tags, enabling massive speedup in 3D reconstruction time.

Evaluated the social acceptability of different notification placement angles on smart display glasses, finding that downward glances are socially awkward for the wearer during conversations. Advised by Prof. Thad Starner.

Helped connect MPC to low-level controls for a Agility Digit Humanoid robot to navigate in crowded spaces. Trained a JAX Gaussian Process model to predict velocity errors, improving trajectory tracking.

Silent speech interface using tiny microphone embedding in nostril to enable tongue-gesture communication with people / AI agents.

A fast and scalable server-side engine for agentic coding, reducing network and process overhead.

Agentic AI mother that takes actions on your computer and in the real world to keep you healthy. Tracks stress with EMG and massages with TENs unit.

Smartwatch with built-in camera for auto-food recognition and nutrient tracking.

AR laser tag played with headsets. Overhead camera tracks arena state; Unity game polls central server.

Video-based home inventory for insurance claims using Segment Anything and Qwen2VL.

Weather-based song curation. Trained LSTM on past music search/weather data to predict song vectors.

AR headset with facial recognition to overlay networking info on people in real-time.

Record a long FPV video and get a short movie narrated and edited completely by AI.

Play Pacman in your browser controlled entirely by head movements using webcam tracking.

Roomba-like robot that shoots hand sanitizer at hands detected via IR and LiDAR.

A digital agent to monitor your child's online activities.

Effortlessly update your wardrobe and support charity!

Real-time chair ergonomics analysis to help improve your posture.