At Cornell, I have been researching at PoRTaL Lab under Professor Sanjiban Choudhury focusing on imitation learning and visuomotor policies for a mobile manipulator robot. I am working toward a publication on the necessity of proper data collection, model selection, and loss choice as recipes for how to achieve ideal policies in the context of visuomotor learning. My future interests lie in exploring how to teach robots to perform highly technical skills more efficiently and safely than humans.

I was also on the controls software team for Cornell Mars Rover, focusing on vision systems for mineral classification and typing on a keyboard. As part of the University Rover Challenge, the team is required to teleoperate the rover to type on a keyboard, which my work on key segmentation simplifies dramatically. The team is also required to classify rocks found in the desert, a task my mineral classifier helped dramatically in.

Having enjoyed the intersection of math and computer science, I loved Cornell's Discrete Structures course (CS 2800) and was a teaching assistant for four semesters, including serving as a Head TA in Spring, 2023 and Spring, 2024. This position entailed being the primary instructor in a discussion session, holding weekly office hours, creating grading rubrics for weekly problem sets, and leading a grading group of 11 TAs. I also spent a semester as a consultant for Cornell's Functional Programming and Data Structures course (CS 3110), helping students grasp the style and nuances of coding in OCaml.

I was fortunate enough to be able to join the 2022-2023 cohort of eLab, Cornell's student accelerator program for providing aspiring entrepreuers with the skills, mentorship, and initial funding to turn ideas into companies. There, I focused on my startup Synopsis, a company initially aimed at helping business executives save time by finding articles relevant to their industry interests and summarizing the important takeaways. The company today has pivoted toward improving corporate communication by automatically generating more engaging and story-like presentations.

More professionally, I enjoyed working as a software engineer at Guidewire Software, a P&C insurance software company, where I got to work on minimizing costs on AWS redshift clusters. There, I restructured the way API calls were being made to AWS to expose more data, which I then displayed alongside incurred costs in a simple and informative web interface I designed.

In my free time, I love baking and eating bread in Cornell's Bread Club, working toward becoming a scratch golfer, and solving the New York Times daily crossword.