The roles, labs, and rooms that have shaped how I think about robots — from soldering my first gripper to leading the technical side of an embodied-AI startup.
Leading the technical side of Devol — actuator design, controls, the embodied-AI stack, and the path from prototype to product. We build force-control robots that understand contact and adapt in real time, targeting precision assembly work that conventional automation can't touch.
Led software, AI solutions, and robotics control across the platform — from learning-based perception to low-level controllers on the company's force-aware manipulators. The years that turned research instincts into shipping systems.
Master's thesis on robot grasping under uncertainty using deep reinforcement learning, advised by Prof. Cindy Grimm, Prof. Xiaoli Fern, and Prof. Ravi Balasubramanian. Published at IROS & ICRA.
Office hours, grading, and lab sections across the academic year. Teaching forces you to be honest about what you actually understand.
Ran human-study sessions investigating robot-hand capabilities. The door into robotics research that I haven't closed since.
Modified HVAC CAD drawings, coordinated with engineers from multiple firms, and supervised on-site installation of ventilation ducts and air-conditioning systems.
Conferences and milestones that mattered. (Macau still wins on night views.)
Attended the International Conference on Robots and Systems in Macau to present my work on near-contact grasping. Met researchers and operators from across industry and academia, swapped ideas on the state of manipulation, and got to explore a city I'd never set foot in.
