About
Roboticist and Aerospace Engineer pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University. Interdisciplinary engineer with experience in robotics & mechatronics, autonomous systems, and GN&C, across hardware, software and simulation.
Work Experience
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyLunar RoboticsROS2
Selected to develop and demonstrate lunar mobility, manipulation, and mobile manipulator capabilities supporting NASA Moon to Mars (M2M) objectives.
WSU, SIAS Lab, Dr. HosseinzadehQuadruped Robotics
Developing Isaac Sim implementation of HuNavSim for Unitree Go2 quadruped, modeling social intention and enabling safe path planning around people.
Sierra LoboOrbital RoboticsROS2Isaac Sim
Developed autonomy and simulation workflows for orbital robotics using ROS and Isaac Sim, including HIL programming for a UFACTORY xArm7, CubeSat avionics and thrust-vector control, PCL and odometry-based deployment simulations, and PID/EKF tuning in Python and MATLAB as a continuation of the SSTI project.
Sierra LoboOrbital RoboticsROS2Isaac Sim
Developed ROS 2 and Isaac Sim environments for orbital robotics, satellite servicing, and on-orbit assembly, incorporating Clohessy Wiltshire orbital propagation with an RK4 solver, NVIDIA Lula inverse kinematics for autonomous manipulation, and RCS thrust vectoring logic for spacecraft GNC testing as part of SSTI, a joint U.S. Space Force and Ohio university satellite-servicing program.
UF, RISING Lab, Dr. Sandip RayROS2GazeboCV
Built ROS2/Gazebo AV testbed; lane following & traffic-sign detection (OpenCV, YOLOv8, PID, Kalman Filter); embedded integration on RPi4 and custom drivers.
Amazon, PAE2Top 100 NA
Ranked top 10 at PAE2 and top 100 in North America (Season 25) for speed & accuracy.
Relevant Experience
Palouse RoboSubAUV/ROVROS2
Led development of GNCea: Gazebo Harmonic AUV/ROV simulator with custom C++ plugins (thrust allocation, buoyancy, hydrodynamic drag), 6-DOF teleop, and autonomy.
WSU Robotics ClubQuadruped RoboticsROS1
Developed a prototype quadruped inverse kinematics system using the MIT CHAMP/CHVMP gait framework and prototyped PPO-based standing and walking policies in MuJoCo.
NASA L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy (Team 27 Venera Nova)CDHTechnical Writing
Designed CDH subsystem, ran trade studies, and developed Siemens NX CAD for a robotic space mission through SDR (System/Software Definition Review), PDR (Preliminary Design Review) and CDR (Critical Design Review).
Skills
check out my latest work
I've worked on a variety of projects. Here are a few of my favorites.
Guppy, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
Palouse Robosub's (Washington State University) AUV for 2026 Robonation Robosub Competition. Placed 23rd place out of 58 teams, beating Cornell, UMich, ERAU, Georgia Tech, NC State, and UCLA
GNCea, an AUV/ROV Simulator
ROS 2 Jazzy based simulator in Gazebo Harmonic with custom C++ plugins for thrust allocation, buoyancy, and hydrodynamic drag; real-time 6-DOF teleop, depth/altitude control, and camera/LiDAR perception.
F1Tenth Algorithms
ROS 2 Humble F1Tenth autonomous racing stack for Ackermann vehicles, featuring Follow-the-Gap and wall-following with RGBD + 3D LiDAR perception; supports multi-vehicle racing scenarios and real-time reactive navigation.
Camera Sensor Attack Testbed
PiCar-X/RPi4 vision-only AV testbed with dual-lane pipelines (HSV, Canny/Hough), YOLO sign detection, PID + Kalman Filter control, and live telemetry to study reflective/blinding/spoofing attacks and mitigations.
React Chess Engine
Interactive chess engine with full rule enforcement (promotion, en passant, check detection) and OOP move validation via a centralized Referee; drag-and-drop UI.
A* Path Planning Simulation
Grid-based A* simulator in Python showcasing shortest-path computation, obstacle avoidance, and heuristic search.
Verilog Stopwatch & Calculator
Stopwatch and calculator implemented in Verilog on Xilinx ZYNQ XC7007S with seven-seg display, switches, and push buttons.