Projects

Inverted Pendulum Kinematics, Control, and Estimation

During my time at SpaceX, I realized my favorite problems involved physics rather than pure software. This was a small project to refresh myself on kinematics, control laws, and Kalaman filters.

Starling Mission Distributed System Control Analysis

As part of AA279D: Control of Distributed Space Systems, my partner and I wrote a report on NASA’s Starling mission analyzing the Keplerian orbital mechanics, relative motion, linear formation flying dynamics, control perturbation-invariant formations, and nonlinear formation control.

Megatronics (ME 210) Group Project

As a final project for ME 210: Introduction to Megatronics, I worked with a group of 4 to design and build a simple robot that could move balls around a course. We designed and built three progressively complex iterations of the robot in 2.5 weeks. I was lead of the mechanic design and also assisted writing the state machine and software for the robot. View our project website here.

American Sign Language 3D CNN

My partner and I retrained the final layers of a 3D convolutional neural network model to identify American sign language words as a final project for CS231N: Deep Learning for Computer Vision. I then spun up a Flask backend and React frontend and built a simple website that allowed users to record a video of themselves signing a word and the model would output its top five guesses.

Rubin Observatory Deblending Emulator

The summer of my freshmen year, I worked on summer research project with Pat Burchat to use PyTorch to develop different neural network architecture to emulate the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) deblending pipeline in order to better understand systemic bias in weak lensing probes as a result of unrecognized galaxy-galaxy blends.

2D plotter robot from scratch

As a final project for CS107E: Computer Systems from the Ground Up, my partner and I built a 2D plotting robot using a bare metal raspberry pie, a custom laser cut chassis, and stepper motors purchased off Amazon. I personally did all of the mechanical design and wrote the G-code parser to translate g-code (exported from Inkscape) into steps for our two stepper motors.