About
I'm a computer scientist and roboticist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. My research spans autonomous robotics, machine learning, and computer vision. I completed my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, where my thesis on multi-robot transport was awarded distinction.
Outside the lab, I studied abroad in Akita, Japan, and continue studying Japanese (JLPT ~N3). I volunteer as a judge chair for regional STEM science fairs. I love art, basketball, and design. This is my cat Scratch; she is 3 years old.
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- Role
- Member of Technical Staff
- Employer
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
- Education
- M.S. Computer Science
- University
- University of New Mexico
- Focus
- Robotics, ML, Computer Vision
- Clearance
- Active DOE L
Technical Skills
Languages
Robotics
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Hardware
Developer Tools
Experience
Member of Technical Staff
Aug. 2026 — Present- Own computer vision (detection, tracking, localization) for robotic automated-assembly systems, and support vision work across other robotics and AI research projects.
- Contribute to funded research in AI-driven robotic assembly, adversarial ML, and RL-based quadrotor control.
R&D Graduate Intern
June 2024 — Aug. 2026- Designed an outdoor reliability benchmark for camera-based hand-sign recognition on a quadruped robot.
- Developed and trained a physics-informed neural network that rapidly identifies the linear and rotational constraints on an object's motion for robotic manipulation, with under 1° of error on three real mechanisms.
- Developed an end-to-end, multi-behavior reinforcement learning policy for quadrotor control.
- Developed a computer vision pipeline to track small objects across multiple video feeds simultaneously.
Graduate Research Assistant
Aug. 2023 — Dec. 2025- Designed, built, and wrote the full software stack for two mobile manipulators; developed dynamic admittance control and optimal coordinated planning for autonomous cooperative transport.
- Development spanned mechanical prototyping and assembly, manipulator integration, SLAM-based localization, and pose-estimation pipelines.
- Led two undergraduate researchers: set the project roadmap, assigned tasks, and delivered milestones to advisors.
R&D Undergraduate Intern
Apr. 2019 — Aug. 2022- Implemented low-level PID control for skid-steer mobile robots using MATLAB, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi, integrated with ROS.
- Developed a real-time RGBD-based detection, segmentation, and localization ROS package with custom YOLO models, OpenCV, and CUDA acceleration, running faster than the camera's 30 Hz frame rate on a single GPU.
Education
M.S. Computer Science
Aug. 2023 — Dec. 2025- Thesis (awarded distinction): Dynamic Admittance Parameterization for Non-Prehensile Multi-Robot Transport with Optimal Coordinated Planning
- Coursework: Machine Learning, Advanced ML, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Controls, Parallel Processing, High Performance Computing
B.S. Computer Science
Aug. 2018 — Dec. 2022- Core coursework in Data Structures & Algorithms, Design of Large Programs, Computer Logic Design, and Data Organization.
- Studied abroad at Akita International University, Akita, Japan (Fall 2022).
Awards & Volunteering
Thesis Distinction
M.S. thesis awarded distinction by UNM Department of Computer Science.
Lobo Hackathon — 4th Place
AI-powered web app for consolidating and summarizing government legislation.
Science Fair Judge Chair
Central NM STEM Research Challenge — organized judging panels for regional student research.
UNM CS Ambassador
UNM School of Engineering Open House — represented the Computer Science department.