About Me
I am an undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My work sits at the intersection of embedded systems, robotics, computer vision, and control, with a focus on building reliable autonomy that runs on real robot hardware.
Recent Updates
Selected by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC as a recipient of the Ellery B. Paine Outstanding Junior Award for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Contributed to "Perch: A Vision-Based Approach for Autonomous Perching," currently under review for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026.
Honored to receive the Yunni and Maxine Pao Memorial Scholarship from Grainger College of Engineering (awarded to only 9 students in the college annually).
Received the John and Sheila Woythal Scholarship from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (awarded to 10 students in the department annually).
Started working on Vision-Based Autonomous Perching at the Advanced Control Research Lab with Prof. Naira Hovakimyan.
Joined Laplace AI Lab Inc. as a Software and DevOps Engineer Intern, working on MCP tools for multi-agent collaboration.
Started as a Course Assistant for ECE 391: Computer Systems Engineering at UIUC.
Highlighted Project
Vision-Based Autonomous Perching
Advanced Control Research Lab | Advisor: Prof. Naira Hovakimyan
Developed real-time vision and pose-estimation pipelines for autonomous perching, delivering target state estimates to onboard controllers and validating approach/contact behavior in hardware-in-the-loop experiments.
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Computer Engineering (Expected May 2026)
Core Coursework: Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Architecture, Control Systems, Robot Dynamics and Control, Digital Signal Processing
Honors and Awards
- 2025-2026 Ellery B. Paine Outstanding Junior Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
- 2025-2026 Yunni and Maxine Pao Memorial Scholarship, Grainger College of Engineering, UIUC (Awarded to only 9 students in the college annually)
- 2025-2026 John and Sheila Woythal Scholarship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC (Awarded to 10 students in the department annually)
- 2nd Place (1v1 Confrontation), RoboMaster University League North America 2023 (Top 10%)
Leadership
Course Assistant, ECE 391: Computer Systems Engineering
- Participated in the design and revision of course materials and machine problems (MPs) covering systems programming and operating systems topics
- Held office hours providing hands-on debugging support in C, RISC-V, and Unix tooling
- Assisted with grading and feedback to improve clarity and student outcomes
Embedded Team Lead, Illini RoboMaster
- Lead embedded C/C++ firmware for autonomous combat robots: STM32-class microcontrollers, FreeRTOS/CMSIS-RTOS tasks, CAN motor/sensor messaging, PID motor control, and Jetson vision/navigation integration
- Established task scheduling, CAN message abstractions, watchdog/self-check routines, and field-debug workflows to improve hardware bring-up reliability