Timeline

PolyFly has been accepted to IEEE RA-L

I’ve moved to UC Berkeley’s EECS department!

I received the 2025 ECE Dr. Li Annual ECE Publication Award at NYU

ES-HPC-MPC, my follow-up work on HPA-MPC has been accepted to IEEE RA-L

Optimal Trajectory Planning for Cooperative Manipulation with Multiple Quadrotors Using Control Barrier Functions has been accepted to ICRA

My first research paper has been accepted to RA-L!

Awarded the Ernst Weber Fellowship from the ECE department at NYU

Awarded the SoE PhD fellowship from the ECE department at NYU

Joined the Agile and Robotics Perception Lab at NYU (Giuseppe Loianno)

Moved to San Francisco and joined Peanut Robotics (8th employee) as a robotics engineer

Joined Squishy Robotics to work on tensegrity robots for my capstone project (CEO Alice Agogino)

Started my Master’s at UC Berkeley in Control of Robotic and Autonomous Systems

2nd place as the lead presenter for Illini Motorsports’ sales presentation at FSAE Michigan (80 international teams) and Lincoln (60 teams).

Graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering with Highest Honors from UIUC

Joined Tesla as an R&D Test Systems Engineering Intern

Awarded the GM/Philip W. Leistra Jr. Society of Automotive Engineers Award for contributions to Illini Motorsports

Elected Team President for UIUC Formula SAE Team (~100 students)

Started my RA at the Advanced Controls Laboratory (Naira Hovakimyan)

2nd place as a co-presenter for Illini Motorsports’ sales presentation at FSAE Michigan and Lincoln, delivering to an audience of over 200 attendees

Started my RA at the Ewoldt Research Group (Randy Ewoldt)

Scored in the top 5% on my fluid mechanics class final, which secured me an interview for an RA position at the Ewoldt Research Group

Joined Illini Motorsports engine subsystem team

Moved to the US to start my BS in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Used my first lathe machine in a machine shop during a manufacturing internship