A robotics engineer designing systems where structure and sensing are co-designed for reliability.

I build robotic systems where mechanical structure and sensing are co-designed from the start. My expertise spans the complete hardware development cycle — from concept and CAD through fabrication, embedded sensing, and real-world validation — across deployable mechanisms, impact telemetry systems, and large-scale mobile platforms. The through-line is consistent: reliable behavior should emerge from a robot's physics, not be corrected by software after the fact.

Expertise

Expertise

Mechanism Design & Hardware Integration

My foundation is mechanism design and CAD-driven hardware integration. I design joints, actuator arrangements, and structural systems with fabrication constraints and real-world loading in mind from the first sketch — spanning soft-rigid hybrid mechanisms, tendon-pulley transmissions, and deployable structures.

Embedded Sensing & Experimental Validation

Building on that mechanical base, I develop the embedded sensing systems that close the loop: custom PCBs, high-G IMUs, firmware pipelines, and validation against independent ground truth. I design experiments specifically to expose failure modes — then use what I find to revise the mechanical architecture itself.

More Work

More Work

Multi-Agent Collective
Construction (MACC)
Robotic Manufacturing Process Optimization
ARPA-E In-Pipe Robotic Platforms for Infrastructure Inspection
Dynamic Planar Manipulation via Inertial Reorientation
Bioinspired Active Sensing: Snake-Tongue Odor Sampling Robot
Multipurpose Underwater Exploration Robot (Build18)