Resume

Waymo

I am currently at Waymo, working to make driving safer, smoother, and smarter with machine learning.

Nuro

At Nuro, I led the team responsible for conceptualization, validation, and deployment of new features and architectures for decision making, trajectory optimization, and simulated agent behavior. I set technical direction and ensured cross-functional alignment to scale up the team and achieve major milestones.

Our team’s work helped demonstrate our robot, R2’s, ability to operate autonomously without a driver nor an operator in a chase-car in Arizona, California, and Texas.

We also helped perform contactless deliveries for temporary COVID-19 hospitals and offer autonomous pizza deliveries to real Dominos' customers.

X, the moonshot factory

At X, I worked on the planning team to develop numerical optimization algorithms and C++ software for a self-driving passenger car. The initiative later spun out into Waymo, an independent Alphabet subsidiary.

PhD research

My research spanned the intersecting areas of trajectory optimization, controls, and multi-robot cooperation, focusing on two themes:

1. Planning fast, agile, dynamic maneuvers while maintaining safety properties
2. Experimental validation on real robot platforms

My dissertation, “Control, planning, and coordination for dynamic aerial manipulation with robot teams”, is available here.

Undergrad research