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I’ve built race cars, worked at Silicon Valley startup to develop algorthms that allow mobile manipulators to autonomously clean hotel bathrooms, and I recently started my next adventure: exploring the integration of Model Predictive Control and Reinforcment Learning for aerial transportatin systems.

People often ask, “Why pursue a PhD? Especially after four years as a robotics engineer, with plenty of experience building robot planning and control software?” My answer simple is that my intellectual curiosity wasn’t fully satisfied. Developing solutions for real world robotics problems was exciting, but I found myself craving the satification you get after you read a good quality research paper or actually understand the inner workings of a MPC solver. I’m passionate about developing both the theoretical and practical intuitions behind these systems, and that’s what led me to pursue a PhD.

When faced with a decisiion with multiple good options, I like to ask myself, “In 20 years, which path would I regret not taking?” I knew for a fact that I’d regret not doing a PhD.

Write your biography here. Tell the world about yourself. Link to your favorite subreddit. You can put a picture in, too. The code is already in, just name your picture prof_pic.jpg and put it in the img/ folder.

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I’ve built race cars, worked at Silicon Valley startup to develop algorthms that allow mobile manipulators to autonomously clean hotel bathrooms, and I recently started my next adventure: exploring the integration of Model Predictive Control and Reinforcment Learning for aerial transportatin systems.

People often ask, “Why pursue a PhD? Especially after four years as a robotics engineer, with plenty of experience building robot planning and control software?” My answer simple is that my intellectual curiosity wasn’t fully satisfied. Developing solutions for real world robotics problems was exciting, but I found myself craving the satification you get after you read a good quality research paper or actually understand the inner workings of a MPC solver. I’m passionate about developing both the theoretical and practical intuitions behind these systems, and that’s what led me to pursue a PhD.

When faced with a decisiion with multiple good options, I like to ask myself, “In 20 years, which path would I regret not taking?” I knew for a fact that I’d regret not doing a PhD.