About Me
Hi, my name is Max! I'm a second-year MS student in computer science at Cornell University researching in machine learning and robotics.
At Cornell, I have been researching at PoRTaL Lab under Professor Sanjiban Choudhury, focusing on learning robot skills from human video demonstrations. I am currently working on a project to cotrain diffusion policies with minimal robot data and a large amount of human data, with the human data containing some robot-like demonstrations and some more human-like demonstrations. The aim is to train on the human actions only when they can provide useful guidance for denoising.
Along with research, I am very passionate about the entrepreneurial world. I was fortunate enough to be able to join the 2022-2023 cohort of eLab, Cornell's premier accelerator. There, I focused on my startup Synopsis, a company that improved corporate communication by automatically generating more engaging and story-like presentations.
As an undergrad, I was also on the controls software team for Cornell Mars Rover, focusing on vision systems for mineral classification and automatic typing on a keyboard. We competed in Hanksville, Utah at the University Rover Challenge.
In my free time, I love working toward becoming a scratch golfer, honing my poker skills, and solving the New York Times daily crossword.