PhD Student interested in the intersection of augmented reality, robotics, and education
Currently Funded through NSF Expeditions Grant for Socially Assistive Robotics
I am currently a first year PhD student in Maja Matarić's Interaction Lab at the University of Southern California having previously worked in Chad Jenkins's Laboratory for Progress as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. I am working on using hands free augmented reality (e.g. Microsoft Hololens) to further the expressive capabilities of and experiences with a robot tutor. I currently oversee 3 undergraduate students in Ryan Stevenson, Roxanna Pakkar, and Zhonghao Shi who can be found on the Interaction People Page.
Post graduation I plan to pursue a professor position stemming from my interests in research, teaching, and mentoring. Outside of lab, I am helping out at Clifford Street Elementary School with their new 5th grade VEX robotics team. I also enjoy many physical acitivites such as yoga, hiking, and volleyball.
Descriptions left brief for current projects. See contact at bottom of page if interested in getting involved.
to increase embodiment
Had users personalize telepresence robots in order to observe differences in user interaction based upon user pair relationships.
for navigating to affordance templates
Worked at TRACLabs implementing a smoothed A-star planner with a dynamic window low level controller able to replan with dynamic objects. This included reviving the TRACBot reconfigurable modular mobile manipulator.
With point filtering
Looked into different point filtering and sampling methods for a geometrically informed ICP. This also included creating a web based ICP visualization.
focusing on post processing visualization
Reimplemented a SLAM post processing method proposed by Edwin Olson in Fast Iterative Alignment of Pose Graphs with Poor Initial Estimates. Tested with the Fetch mobile manipulator.
| School | Degree | Started | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
Computer Science B.S.E. | 2014 | 2018 |
 University of Southern California - Los Angeles |
Computer Science PhD | 2018 | Present |
If you are interested in getting involved with the Interaction Lab, please read our current research before contacting.