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“Almost every problem that you come across is befuddled with all kinds of extraneous data … if you can bring this problem down into the main issues, you can see more clearly what you are trying to do and perhaps find a solution” — Claude Shannon

About. I’m a robotics researcher at the GRASP Lab (UPenn), advised by Dr. George Pappas. Previously, I studied Mechanical Engineering at UCLA and spent time at Blue Origin and NASA JPL. I’ll be joining the University of Washington CSE robotics group as a PhD student in Fall 2026, advised by Dr. Siddhartha Srinivasa.

Why Robotics. I’ve always been fascinated by how living systems solve problems. Slime molds (a single-celled organism!), for instance, can find shortest paths to food via simple chemical signals; ants are able to build complex societies from limited individual capability; even plants, despite lacking a nervous system entirely, still adapt beautifully and arguably more effectively than anything else on Earth.

This universal dialogue of feedback between agent and environment is what really makes me passionate about robotics. I’m interested in how agents learn, decide, and adapt under constraints, and how these behaviors scale to real-world impact beyond controlled, flashy demos.

Technical Interests. I work across the stack, with a focus on autonomy at the intersection of learning and control:

• Optimal control & reinforcement learning
• Dexterous manipulation
• Representations & world modelling
• Multi-agent systems
• Robustness & generalization