Hello World!

“Feedback is a method of controlling a system by reinserting into it the results of its past performance… if [this] is able to change the general method and pattern of performance, we have a process which may well be called learning.” — Norbert Weiner

About. Hi, I’m a Robotics M.S. student and researcher in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Dr. George Pappas. I studied Mechanical Engineering at UCLA, spent time at Blue Origin and NASA JPL, and will begin a Ph.D. in Fall 2026. This site is a running notebook for things I’m exploring around autonomy, learning, and control.

Why Robotics. I’ve always been fascinated by how living systems solve problems. Slime molds, for instance, can solve shortest path problems to their favorite food using simple chemical signals; ants build complex societies from very limited individual capabilities; and plants, with no nervous system at all, still adapt beautifully and arguably better than anything else on Earth.

Robotics, to me, feels like our way of exploring those same ideas. I like working on math and algorithms that actually make things move in the real world, and my goal is to develop frameworks and full-stack systems that push robots beyond controlled demos and toward tangible benefits for people and the environment.

Technical Interests. I want to be a full-stack roboticist and am most interested in autonomy that combines learning and control.

• Real-world reinforcement learning
• Dexterous manipulation
• World models and representations
• Multi-agent autonomy
• Robustness & generalization on critical tasks