Experience

Kindred Powered by Ocado

• United States
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Machine Learning and Controls Researcher

  • Jan 2021 - Present



University of Toronto

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Jun 2020 - Jan 2021

  • Research focus on learning-enhanced controllers for quadrotors.• Develop deep neural network-based controllers with stability guarantees. • Perform theoretical analysis for model reference adaptive controllers to be leveraged in learning-enhanced controllers.• Validate the proposed controllers with extensive experiments on quadrotors subject to disturbances.

• • Aug 2014 - May 2020

  • Develop control frameworks that guarantee high-accuracy trajectory tracking in changing environments, where robots must handle model uncertainties, unknown disturbances, and changing dynamics.• Design control methods that use learning to improve trajectory tracking performance by learning over iterations.• Use learning and control theory to develop transfer learning techniques that include a data-efficient, multi-robot, multi-task transfer learning framework.• Design and provide performance guarantees for a robust and adaptive optimal control framework that achieves high-accuracy trajectory tracking in changing environments.• Validate the proposed controllers with simulations and extensive experiments on quadrotors subject to disturbances. Show less

• • Sep 2015 - Dec 2018

  • Aid undergraduate students in the learning process of the course material (sensor data fusion, path planning and control) and the preparation of projects.• Design laboratory tasks that allow students to implement the material learned in class.



UNSW

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Jul 2012 - Aug 2014

  • Develop efficient path planning techniques in dense contexts and time-varying environments through the use of dynamic programming.• Design hybrid algorithms based on dynamic programming and particle swarm optimisation that take advantage of partitioning the environment to provide significant speed ups.• Test proposed algorithms under different conditions such as multiple degree of freedom platforms, cluttered environments and dense contexts.

• • Feb 2014 - Jun 2014

  • Assist students with laboratory tasks that cover stochastic processes, state estimation, sensor data fusion, nonlinear control, optimal control, stochastic control, behaviour-based control, and machine learning techniques.

• • Jul 2013 - Nov 2013

  • Assist students with laboratory tasks that cover robot design, mechanisms and kinematic of robots, sensors, perception, and motion planning and control in cluttered contexts.

• • Feb 2013 - Jun 2013

  Aiding undergraduate students in the learning process of the courses’ material and the preparation ofprojects and assignments.



Mediatec

• Product Manager

  • Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  • Design, market, implement and manage Robotics and Artificial Intelligence laboratories that satisfy the needs of higher education in Mexico. • Present our solutions to potential clients: university chancellors, heads of school and professors. • Design and teach the training course for technical staff in the use of Aldebaran Robotics NAO robot. • Design, market, implement and manage Robotics and Artificial Intelligence laboratories that satisfy the needs of higher education in Mexico. • Present our solutions to potential clients: university chancellors, heads of school and professors. • Design and teach the training course for technical staff in the use of Aldebaran Robotics NAO robot.



Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Mexico
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Aug 2007 - Dec 2011

  • Design controllers and electronic circuits used in various robotic projects under the PROFIL (Spanish for: Undergraduate Research Promotion Program) scheme, which include an agricultural and a firefighting robot. • Design controllers and electronic circuits used in various robotic projects under the PROFIL (Spanish for: Undergraduate Research Promotion Program) scheme, which include an agricultural and a firefighting robot.



MIT, Space Propulsion Lab

• Cambridge, MA, USA

• Summer Research Intern

  • Jun 2010 - Jul 2010

  • Investigate the microfabrication of electrospray ion sources through nickel electro-deposition as a method to produce micron sized high aspect ratio pillars as electrospray ion sources. • Test electroplating baths under different voltages and observe different plating regimes. Certain regimes will plate the inside of pores, closing the materials porosity at precise points while others form solid structures on top of porous media. • Investigate the microfabrication of electrospray ion sources through nickel electro-deposition as a method to produce micron sized high aspect ratio pillars as electrospray ion sources. • Test electroplating baths under different voltages and observe different plating regimes. Certain regimes will plate the inside of pores, closing the materials porosity at precise points while others form solid structures on top of porous media.