I am the manager and technical lead of the Decision Making team at Toyota Research Institute . My team develops high-level (behavioral) planning algorithms for autonomous driving.
I was previously an NSF Fellow and received a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. As a part of Edwin Olson's APRIL Robotics Laboratory, I investigated planning and communication methods for autonomous agents, large-scale localization and mapping, and low-cost sensing for swarm robots. I developed and implemented state-of-the-art algorithms on a wide range of robot platforms, from centimeter-scale swarm robots to full-sized vehicles. I collaborated on many sponsored projects, researching the automation of rural mail route delivery (US Postal Service), the use of ground robots to monitor methane emissions at landfills (National Science Foundation), and the deployment of mobile robots to track soldier movements (DARPA).
Computer Science and Engineering
Thesis: "Adaptive Communication for Mobile Multi-Robot Systems"
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Summa Cum Laude
Manager, Decision Making (7/21 - present)
Senior Research Scientist (1/21 - 7/21)
Research Scientist (2/19 - 1/21)
IROS 2019
PhD Thesis, University of Michigan, 2019
Autonomous Robots, 2019
Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, 2018
ICRA 2018
RSS Workshop: Robot Communication in the Wild 2017
ICRA 2016
Biomedical Microdevices 2013