Resume
Research Experience
2016 - Present
Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
As part of my PhD research, I worked on developing deep reinforcement learning algorithms to teach robots fall prevention and safe falling skills
Atlanta GA
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Research Intern
Nvidia Research
As a summer research intern, developed a curriculum learning algorithm for learning control policies for robot arms that achieves high end-effector accuracy, generate smooth motion as well as ability to avoid obstacles
Redmond WA
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Research Intern
Nvidia Research
As a summer research intern, worked on a project to learn control policies for a multi-fingered dextrous robot hand to grasp objects. The policy uses both visual and tactile information as input to enable better grasps that also transfer to real world robot
Redmond WA
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Research Intern
As a summer research intern, developed a novel adaptive sampling technique to enable efficient learning of humanoid balancing control policies.
Disney Research
Pittsburgh PA
Education
2016 - Present
Doctor of Philosophy, Robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA
2014 - 2016
Masters in Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle WA
Programming Languages
Python
C++
MATLAB
Physics Simulators
Dart, PyDart
Mujoco
Bullet, PyBullet