Autonomous Driving Controls Engineer

• Sep 2023 - Present

Research and development for the Autonomous subteam of Formula Electric. Worked on SLAM, trajectory optimization, and MPC. Research and development for the Autonomous subteam of Formula Electric. Worked on SLAM, trajectory optimization, and MPC.

Lifeguard

• Apr 2021 - Aug 2023

Team Captain

• Jul 2019 - May 2023

Hardware team member 7/2019-6/2022 Team Captain 5/2022-5/2023 Designed, fabricated, and built robots to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge. Advanced to World Championships three times. Held the world record during the Ultimate Goal season. Won Design Award and Inspire 3rd place at World Championships. Won simultaneous Winning Alliance Captain and Inspire 1st at Norcal Regionals. Taught classes, workshops, and summer camps regularly for elementary to middle school… Show more Hardware team member 7/2019-6/2022 Team Captain 5/2022-5/2023 Designed, fabricated, and built robots to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge. Advanced to World Championships three times. Held the world record during the Ultimate Goal season. Won Design Award and Inspire 3rd place at World Championships. Won simultaneous Winning Alliance Captain and Inspire 1st at Norcal Regionals. Taught classes, workshops, and summer camps regularly for elementary to middle school students. Developed robotics kits (5-bar parallel robot for drawing) and a matching curriculum, and sent them to STEAM for Vietnam to serve as an introduction to robotics. Learned about CAD, DF(A)M, CAM, CNC machining and 3D printing. Learned about leadership, project management, planning, and working with a team on both technical and non-technical projects. Show less Hardware team member 7/2019-6/2022 Team Captain 5/2022-5/2023 Designed, fabricated, and built robots to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge. Advanced to World Championships three times. Held the world record during the Ultimate Goal season. Won Design Award and Inspire 3rd place at World Championships. Won simultaneous Winning Alliance Captain and Inspire 1st at Norcal Regionals. Taught classes, workshops, and summer camps regularly for elementary to middle school… Show more Hardware team member 7/2019-6/2022 Team Captain 5/2022-5/2023 Designed, fabricated, and built robots to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge. Advanced to World Championships three times. Held the world record during the Ultimate Goal season. Won Design Award and Inspire 3rd place at World Championships. Won simultaneous Winning Alliance Captain and Inspire 1st at Norcal Regionals. Taught classes, workshops, and summer camps regularly for elementary to middle school students. Developed robotics kits (5-bar parallel robot for drawing) and a matching curriculum, and sent them to STEAM for Vietnam to serve as an introduction to robotics. Learned about CAD, DF(A)M, CAM, CNC machining and 3D printing. Learned about leadership, project management, planning, and working with a team on both technical and non-technical projects. Show less

Student

• Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

Learned about quadrotor dynamics and control. Implemented monocular pose estimation with OpenCV and aruco tags, spline-based path planning for navigation through race course hoops, and pure pursuit-like path following. Learned about quadrotor dynamics and control. Implemented monocular pose estimation with OpenCV and aruco tags, spline-based path planning for navigation through race course hoops, and pure pursuit-like path following.