Visiting Student at MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab (Summer 2026)
Working on the ping-pong and manipulation project gave me an end-to-end look at the research lifecycle. The ping-pong project taught me so much about how hard it can be to transfer the simulation results to the real world, especially when working with a really fast system. The manipulation project gave me my own direction into a new frontier of robotics that I had not previously worked in. In the end, I synthesized my work into two hopeful papers. One as a first author on the manipulation project and another on the ping-pong project.
The Robotics & AI Institute Intern (Summer 2024 & 2025)
In this experience I learned what it was really like to work in industry. The 9-5 and 5 day a week in person job with commuting. I learned so much from technical skills to going about meetings and design reviews. Below is a youtube video of the project I contributed to. The robot is meant to throw, catch, and hit a baseball.
Build It Yourself Software Developer
Front-end maintenance and new features in Javascript/React
Added social-media features and usage analytics
800 beta users
This experience in high school was valuable because I quickly learned how to design for the user in mind and making decisions based on what features they wanted rather than what I did. I also learned about using GItHub to manage peer reviews and pull requests during feature updates.