Curriculum vitae
Computer engineering student at Fort Lewis College focused on robot learning and autonomy, with experience spanning benchmark design, simulation, controls, perception, and embedded systems.
Education
Fort Lewis College
- Computer Engineering
- Mathematics & Business Administration
- May 2027
- 3.65 (cumulative through Summer 2026; 4.0 in Spring and Summer 2026, Spring Dean's List) · upper-division 3.8
Focus areas
- Robot learning
- Autonomous systems
- Embodied AI
- Reinforcement learning
- Computer vision & perception
- Simulation & sim-to-real
- Controls & motion planning
- Experimental evaluation
- Embedded systems
Capability summary
Robot Learning & Autonomy
Language-conditioned navigation and manipulation, behavior cloning, PPO, action representation, and the failure modes that determine closed-loop performance.
Experimental Robotics
Benchmark design, controlled ablations, per-episode evidence, confidence intervals, failure decomposition, and reproducible artifact packs.
Perception
RGB and point-cloud pipelines using vision-language models, YOLO, PCA, ICP, and geometric measurements under real sensing constraints.
Modeling & Control
Kinematics, Jacobians, trajectory generation, locomotion rewards, visual servoing, heading control, and simulation-based validation.
Robotics Systems
Isaac Sim / Lab, ManiSkill3, MuJoCo, ROS / ROS 2, MoveIt, robot SDKs, distributed inference, and safety-aware deployment paths.
Embedded & Edge Systems
Arduino and bare-metal firmware, FPGA protocols, PCB design, sensor integration, power distribution, and hardware debugging.
Selected work
- K1 / NaVILA Navigation ResearchA completed 1,077-episode simulation benchmark, an audited K1 locomotion stack, and a controlled study of how embodiment and viewpoint shape navigation failure.
- xembenchA two-embodiment ManiSkill3 benchmark whose first large campaign found near-zero transfer under weak precision policies — then measured where action chunking helped and where it did not.
- CLiDA / LiDAR Motion AnalysisA five-person sensing project that estimated object dimensions, principal axis, motion, and rotation rate from point-cloud sequences — with final 1 RPM and 3 RPM trials reported against a controlled test stand.
Leadership & service
- Student representative, Strategic Implementation Committee — one of four students serving with the FLC president, trustees, deans, and campus leaders on the 2025–2030 strategic plan
- President & co-founder, Entrepreneurial Ventures Association — led an 8-person executive team, organized pitch competitions allocating $1,500 in micro-grants, and brought the NASA Venture Program to campus
- Team lead, NASA Colorado Robotics Challenge — coordinated a four-person team building and fielding an autonomous 18-DoF hexapod
- STEM tutor — mathematics, physics, and programming
- Volunteer, Children's Cancer Research Fund — six years supporting a memorial golf tournament that has raised more than $175,000
Honors & awards
- 2nd place — Physics & Engineering Symposium, Fort Lewis College (robotic PV hotspot inspection), Sep 2025
- Dean's List — Spring 2026, 4.0 semester GPA
- Katz School of Business Leadership Award — Apr 2024
- New Registered Student Organization of the Year — Entrepreneurial Ventures Association, 2023–24
- Goldman Sachs Emerging Leaders Series — Feb 2024