Experience

Pickle Robot Company
• United States
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Deployment Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Present


Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2017

  Collaboration between the Device Realization Lab and the Newman Lab for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation under Dr. Brian Anthony and Prof. Neville HoganThesis Title: Measurement of physician hand & patient tissue mechanical impedance- Developed a new feature for an existing medical device, a hand-operated actuated ultrasound probe, that allows it to measure the mechanical impedance of the operator and patient tissue within 10% accuracy.- Modeled and experimentally validated the electromechanical dynamics of medical devices.- Conducted human trials and wrote multiple IRB-approved protocols for experimental procedures testing the impedance measuring functionality of an actuated probe and corresponding human motion control.- Repaired robotic arm actuators, improved power transmission in the actuated ultrasound probe, implemented additional sensory circuitry, and fabricated components for human interface with the devices. Show less

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2014 - Feb 2015

  Collaboration between the Field and Space Robotics Lab and the Man Vehicle Lab under the direction of Dr. Leia Stirling, Dr. Steven Dubowsky, and former astronaut Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman.- Conducted experiments with human subjects to measure skin deformation during walking.- Analyzed energy generation attainable via dielectric polymer strain.- Determined the feasibility of an energy harvesting suit concept based on the findings from this study.



University of Florida

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Physics Tutor

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2014

  Tutored undergraduate students course material, including- Physics - Circuits - Structural Mechanics - Thermodynamics - MaterialsHeld weekly office hours and prepared supplemental course material for 25 students.

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2012 - Feb 2014

  Project under the direction of Dr. Kamran Mohseni- Designed and assembled a custom experimental setup to study airflow in a wind tunnel.- Conducted experiments to characterize vortex formation over wings of low aspect ratio.