// timeline

accelerating autonomy at aurora jun - sep 2025

built some incredible simulation tools to speed up motion planning and controls engineering for autonomous vehicles. published at ICRA 2026.

published embodied ai research june 2025

Co-authored a structured eval framework for bimanual robotic manipulation, pushing beyond binary success metrics to provide actionable insights into policy limitations. published at CORL 2025 and ICRA 2026

first venture into startups jan - apr 2025

built an experiential learning platform for medical students. dempsey Startup competition finalist and accepted to buerk center accelerator. featured by the buerk center.

joined the embodied ai team at ai2 jan - jun 2025

Started researching vision-language-action (VLA) models and bimanual manipulation systems at the Allen Institute for AI.

started the research journey march 2024

humble beginnings at the UW personal robotics lab. some small work on imitation learning and control algorithms.