About me

I'm a research scientist passionate about making positive impacts through technology and science. I have a broad range of experience from government and academic research (Sandia National Laboratories; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) to industry (Lockheed Martin; Doron Precision Systems), and have communicated my work to audiences in high-impact journals, conferences, and public presentations. I am excited to leverage my skillsets in both computational and experimental methods including control theory, data science, and applied machine learning to solve complex problems.

Sample projects

Chinese text simplification with NLP, BART

In this ongoing project, I use NLP tools and fine tune BART for the task of text simplification of online Chinese language content.

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Soft Robotic Shape Display

Published open access in Nature Communications, my coauthors and I developed an advanced 100-actuator, 100-sensor soft robotic system. The "shape display" device can recreate various surface topologies, manipulate and move objects across the surface, display numbers and text, and more. With the addition of real-time sensor feedback, the robot can respond to external forces, enabling new applications in interactivity and creativity.

Gradient descent control algorithm

I developed and experimentally validated the performance of a gradient-descent-based control algorithm using our robotic shape display which can drive complex trajectories of surface objects in real time. This work is currently in preparation for publication.

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