About
Goals
I have a few serious goals that I think about pretty much constantly:
- Make useful, reliable
- Enable robots to work anywhere
- Scale robots as far as possible
Background
I've been actively working on AI and robotics since I was 15 years old. I started while attending the Bronx High School of Science in NYC, where I programmed for our school's FIRST Robotics team and simultaneously did award-winning research on using natural language processing for clinical decision support.
After high school I attended the University of Michigan to study computer science. During my first year there I continued working on AI for medical applications. In my second and third years I slowly pivoted over to natural language processing, when I spent most of 2019 working at Clinc, a local AI startup in Ann Arbor focused on building for enterprise. In 2020, I joined the SLED group, which focuses on language, especially in the context of embodied AI (e.g. robots).
That's around the time when I fell in love with robots all over again. Since then I continued into a Master's degree in Robotics at Michigan as well, doing mobile manipulation and perception research in the Progress Lab. I also worked on planning and control for humanoid locomotion in the ROAHM Lab. I had a great time, and I think I'm going to be working on robots for a very long time. I'm fortunate to now be in industry working on a small team at Boston Dynamics tackling the goals I listed above, and I'll do what it takes until they're accomplished, no matter where I am.