Experience

Osaka University

• Japan
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Doctoral Student

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Researching and developing a dog-inspired robot for use in mental health care situations. Studying the effect of various spinal configurations and robotic gait patterns on human perception of a robot's life-likeness. Supervised by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and Professor Chaoran Liu Researching and developing a dog-inspired robot for use in mental health care situations. Studying the effect of various spinal configurations and robotic gait patterns on human perception of a robot's life-likeness. Supervised by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and Professor Chaoran Liu



BladeBUG

• United Kingdom
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Robotics Software Engineer

  • Aug 2020 - Oct 2021

  Software and hardware development for a wind turbine inspection robot. Led software design meetings and worked as a team in an agile startup environment. Tested new robot features such as localisation, surface scanning and fault inspection on a real wind turbine. Software and hardware development for a wind turbine inspection robot. Led software design meetings and worked as a team in an agile startup environment. Tested new robot features such as localisation, surface scanning and fault inspection on a real wind turbine.



Imperial College Robotics Society

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Projects Coordinator

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2020

  Organised a new inter-university robotics competition (sumobotrules.icrs.io). Ran several competition teams, and organised sponsorship and funding for these teams. Helped members with their own personal projects.Aided junior committee members with their roles, in particular the new lab manager during H&S audits and GDPR changes.

• Lab Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

  Managed the ICRS lab space, including health and safety (COSHH forms, risk assessments etc.), as well as giving equipment safety inductions for 3d printers and the laser cutter to new ICRS members.



BladeBUG

• United Kingdom
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mechatronics Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

  Developed a laser-scan processing node using PCL (C++) and ROS, with a Hokuyo laser scanner to measure and predict surface normals of a wind turbine blade in real time. Tested the software on a real wind turbine blade with successful results. Set up EKF for odometry and IMU sensor fusion, in preparation for future autonomous localisation. Also worked with a small team to improve and develop the whole system controller structure, leading several meetings. Also generally worked on robot hardware and software issues. Helped run a stand at the Global Offshore Wind 2019 trade show on behalf of BladeBUG in order to gain interest from potential investors and industry partners.



Metaswitch Networks

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Developer Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Developed Python scripts to process technical configuration files and remove some security risks for Project Clearwater. Learnt to use version control with Git, CI with Jenkins, and the principles of working in an agile scrum team. Developed Python scripts to process technical configuration files and remove some security risks for Project Clearwater. Learnt to use version control with Git, CI with Jenkins, and the principles of working in an agile scrum team.