Experience

Bear Robotics

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Autonomy SWE

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Formalized a new decentralized multi-robot coordination system with fundamental improvements that generalized conflict resolution algorithms to handle the long-tail of real-world environments, reduced average time-to-resolution, eliminated multi-agent behavioral oscillations, reduced code/system complexity Designed and deployed decentralized & real-time multi-agent collision-free path planning algorithms which significantly reduces traffic congestion Developed generalized multi-robot simulation and data analytics tools to increase development velocity for myself and my team Show less



UC Irvine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Feb 2019 - Sep 2019

  Worked under Dr. Richard Futrell at UCI's Language Processing GroupConducted research on emergence of language by implementing and training recursive neural networks with attention mechanisms and reinforcement learning objective functionDesigned intuitive visualizations of complex time-series data to interpret results by utilizing Bokeh (a visualization library in Python)

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jun 2017 - Sep 2019

  Worked under Dr. Lisa Pearl at UCI's Computation of Language LabImplemented a sentiment analysis pipeline to evaluate and compare 25 NLP methodsDesigned and tested a novel negation method (~10-32% improvement in accuracy) by harnessing UCI’s computing cluster to generate statistical quantities of Amazon's product reviews dataset (~88M reviews)

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

  Worked under Kenji Ikemura (MD), Dr. Gultekin Gulsen & Dr. Farouk Nouizi at the Center of Functional Onco-Imaging Surveyed the possibilities of using computer vision to automate initial screenings in digital pathologyPreprocessed and augmented large (10s-100s GB) biomedical image datasets in PythonPrototyped a tractable Gleason-score prediction algorithm to process large biomedical images (up to 5 GB) by leveraging a sliding-window model with fine-tuned convolutional neural networkPrototyped a mitosis detection algorithm by leveraging transfer learning on pretrained object detection model Show less



Irvine Valley College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Student Software Lead

  • Sep 2016 - May 2017

  Spearheaded software development for autonomous rover which placed 2nd in VitalLink’s Robotics Competition Designed and implemented an object detection system utilizing a clustering algorithm (DBSCAN) on a stream of 360-LiDAR data points to reliably localize nearby objects Leveraged the DroneKit open-source API to integrate sensor data from LiDAR, accelerometer & GPS for autonomous object avoidance Spearheaded software development for autonomous rover which placed 2nd in VitalLink’s Robotics Competition Designed and implemented an object detection system utilizing a clustering algorithm (DBSCAN) on a stream of 360-LiDAR data points to reliably localize nearby objects Leveraged the DroneKit open-source API to integrate sensor data from LiDAR, accelerometer & GPS for autonomous object avoidance