Research
Conceptual diagram of airborne sonar system
Airborne Sonar
2025 - 2026 | Advised by Dr. Amin Arbabian
Helping design an airborne optical system that can utilize the photoacoustic effect to do underwater sensing.
Testing learned robot policies on difficult objects.
Online Feedback Mechanisms for Crowdsourcing Robot Data
2024 - 2025 | Advised by Dr. Dorsa Sadigh
Investigated whether using mutual information estimators on robot trajectories could provide valuable online feedback for non-expert robot operators. Built an ALOHA robot and a Tidybot++ .
Optical table layout for Mach-Zehnder style interferometer
Advancing Seismic Isolation for aLIGO
2022 - 2023 | Advised by Dr. Brian Lantz
Prototyped an auxiliary platform interferometer to detect seismic activity for advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO) systems.
Example occupancy grid from initial LiDAR generated blueprint
LiDAR-based navigation in changing environments
2025 | Advised by Dr. Grace Gao
Developing algorithms for improving navigation in altered environments for natural disaster recovery autonomy.