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Posts
Ham on Rye
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Raw, brutally honest semi-autobiographical novel set in Depression-era Los Angeles. Very cynical but such a real book. (4.2/5)
The Sun Also Rises
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A boozy drift through post-WW1 Europe. The characters of the books are lost souls who can’t seem to help but sabotage their own happiness in search of meaning. (4/5)
The Alchemist
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I really loved this one. Makes you feel like your dreams are waiting just over the next horizon. (4.2/5)
The Samurai’s Garden
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Wow. Set in a Japanese coastal village during 1937 (wartime). Matsu is one of my favorite characters of all time. (5/5)
Man’s Search for Meaning
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Writes on his experience as a prisoner in Nazi Germany. Even through he survives the worst life can offer, it is so inspiring how Frankl can claw out a sense of purpose in what feels like a radical act. (4.4/5)
One, None and a Hundred Thousand
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His wife makes fun of his nose, and the main character completely loses his sense of self. Offers a lot of provocative question about how social perceptions of you shape your identity. (3.6/5)
Bluets
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I love how this is written. So unique in style and in its descriptions of grief, obessesion, and the color blue. It feels like you really know Maggie Nelson by the end of it(4.5/5)
Baron in the Trees
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A boy climbs into the trees and never climbs down. So many powerful themes in this book, and I really respect how Cosimo unapologetically lives his life. (4.6/5)
Forty Rules of Love
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My favorite book to date. Shams of Tabriz left a lasting imprint on my heart, and this has given me a new appreciation for Rumi’s poetry. (5/5)”
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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Lots of pieces of advice that I really liked. Very digestable but dense with advice. (3.5/5)
portfolio
An Autonomous VIO Quadrotor
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A fully autonomous quadrotor system integrating path planning, minimum-jerk trajectory generation, nonlinear control, and visual-inertial state estimation.
Arduino-based Guitar Tuner
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Guitar Tuner Built From Scratch Using Physics Principles
Manual and CNC Machining
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Mini Chair Manufactured Using Manual and CNC Machining Techniques
Bayesian Optimization for Wide Landscapes (BOWL)
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Developed my own BayesOpt algo BOWL, combining Entropy‐SGD and Most Probable Descent (MPD) to find robust optima in black-box functions.
MARL-AUV for Spatiotemporal Mapping
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ICRA-26 submission under review: multi-agent RL + active GP regression for spatiotemporal mapping of dynamic coastal plumes.
Blue Origin GNC Graudate Internship
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High-Fidelity Modeling and Controller Design for Electromechanical Actuation (EMA) in Rocket Engine
Reinforcement Learning Drone Racing
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End-to-End PPO Policy Design for Autonomous High-Speed Gate Navigation.
Autonomous Pick-and-Place System
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Robotic block stacking with AprilTag tracking and closed-loop control.
Autonomous Rovers
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Hands-on development of two autonomous ground vehicles.
NASA JPL Internship Project
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Dynamical Evaluation of Novel Damping Mechanism for Shock Mitigation in Aerospace Applications
1-Pound Combat Robot
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Design and fabrication of a high-performance battle bot.
Compliant MEMS micro-mirror system
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High-speed, Precision Flexure-based Micro-mirror.
UCLA Thermoscience Research
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Researched the Fluid Dynamics of String Mass Exchangers in Liquid Desiccant Applications
Robotic Arm Manipulator Mechanical Design
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6 DoF Manufacturing Manipulator (CAD)
MATLAB Quarter Car Model Controls
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Active Suspension System Design using MATLAB and Simulink
publications
Long-Term Mapping of the Douro River Plume with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Published in ICRA 2026 (under review), 2025
We present a scalable multi-agent system for long-term environmental monitoring using autonomous underwater vehicles. By intelligently coordinating robot teams with intermittent communication, Gaussian process regression, and reinforcement learning, we achieve better accuracy and over double the mission endurance compared to traditional approaches.
talks
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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