Perception · SLAM · Sensor Fusion · ROS 2 / C++ · Learning-Based Control

I build autonomous systems on real robots — perception, SLAM, and learning-based control — and I bring 3.5+ years of Tesla-program validation rigor to the work.

🤖 Research Assistant, Robust Field Autonomy Lab (Prof. Brendan Englot) @ Stevens — developing the autonomy stack for an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) in ROS 2 Jazzy / C++: LiDAR–camera fusion, AprilTag localization, SLAM, and a reinforcement-learning robust controller that self-adapts to changing wave conditions, deployed on NVIDIA Jetson + embedded hardware and validated in the Davidson Laboratory wave tank.

🚗 Before grad school — 3.5 years at AGP eGlass owning design validation (DVP) and KUKA robotic-cell commissioning for Tesla, Volvo, and GM programs (incl. the Tesla AP4 Autopilot glass family) as sole New-Models-Introduction engineer at the Tracy, CA plant.

🎓 MEng in Robotics @ Stevens Institute of Technology (GPA 3.89, expected Dec 2026) · Graduate Certificate in ML & AI for Mechanical Engineering.

🎯 Open to full-time Autonomous Systems / Robotics Software Engineer roles (perception, planning, autonomy) — Texas & California.

Languages

Autonomy & Robotics  SLAM · Sensor Fusion (LiDAR + stereo + IMU) · Motion Planning · AprilTag Localization · State Machines · PID & Robust Control

Perception & ML  Deep Learning · Reinforcement Learning (robust control) · Perception Pipelines

Embedded & Deployment  Real-robot deployment · Sensor calibration

Multi-Robot Warehouse Simulation  ·  MATLAB · Simulink · Simscape Multibody  ·  team project (ME 635, Group 11) A fleet of autonomous warehouse robots — task allocation, A* planning, VFH avoidance, and token-based corridor right-of-way — with a 2D decision engine driving a physics-based 3D Simscape visualization. My role: designed and implemented the dynamic task allocator and the token-based corridor right-of-way protocol, built the entire 3D Simscape Multibody model from scratch, and connected the 2D→3D pose pipeline. (Teammates contributed additional planning experiments, analytics, and reporting.)

Autonomous Object Sorting Using a Mobile Robot  ·  MATLAB / Simulink  ·  team project An autonomous mobile robot that navigates to objects and sorts them into predefined zones, developed and tested in MATLAB. My role: contributed to the roadmap / path design — establishing the analytical starting point, then testing and tuning the path waypoints to produce a collision-free route — and helped develop the wall-avoidance algorithm documented in the project report.

Autonomy on real hardware, backed by validation discipline.