Experience

Manus Robotics

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and CTO

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  Lexington, Massachusetts Leading the technical development and prototype evaluation of wearable technologies, including assistive robots and optical muscle activity sensors. Overseeing market research and production of publicity materials.



MIT d'Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2013 - May 2017

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Designed a pair of wrist-mounted robotic fingers to assist hemiplegic patients with activities of daily living. Devised a data-driven method to extract human intent and implicitly control the robotic fingers to collaborate with human movements. Investigated nonlinear system modeling and control in latent variable space to enable more human-like robot behavior.



MIT Robust Design Group/Harvard Biodesign Laboratory

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - Jul 2013

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Developed an MRI-compatible image-guided medical robot to address key limitations of current manually performed interventional procedures for MS thesis. Built and tested the cable-driven robot to increase the accuracy and capability of multiple probe insertions.



Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

• Singapore
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

  • Jul 2012 - Jan 2013

  Singapore Co-Teaching Instructor for Introduction to Design; Worked on a novel method of modeling the magnetic field surrounding a permanent magnet using both Artificial Neural Network and Magnetic Dipole. Obtained experimental data for two types of magnets to verify the new model and examined the accuracy of model based tracking.



MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

• Research Affiliate

  • Jun 2009 - Nov 2011

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Designed a robot with remote-controlled and autonomous navigation capabilities for a low-vision-themed stage production directed by Robert Wilson. Implemented hemispherical projector and camera with visual impairment rendering software on the robot to aid the seeing-handicapped actors in visualizing the stage environment and to present the experience of severe low vision to a sighted audience.