About

I am a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where my research is focused on human-robot collaboration with applications in healthcare and medicine. I am a member of the Model-Based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) Group, which is housed in the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). I have been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) to pursue this work.

 

My passion for engineering stemmed from my time on FIRST Robotics Team 1218, where I acted as team captain, strategy lead, and outreach lead. My efforts in team reorganization and competition strategy analysis were substantial in helping win the FIRST Robotics World Championship in 2019. In college, I joined the Johns Hopkins Blue Jay Racing Team, which competes for Baja SAE, and was the frame subsystem lead in my sophomore year. I then transitioned to doing research in the Intelligent Medical Robotic Systems and Equipment (IMERSE) Lab at Hopkins, where I integrated force sensors onto surgical instruments to improve autonomous performance in suturing operations. For my senior thesis, I studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh and worked in the Statistical Learning and Motor Control (SLMC) Group, where I designed models for classification of safe and unsafe human-robot interaction in eldercare applications. Through these experiences, I found what I want to pursue in the future: research that ensures robots think safely and practically when interacting with humans in the ever-growing healthcare domain.