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Experience

Education

Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, Dartmouth College

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Master of Science in Computer Science (current)

Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

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Bachelor of Engineering, concentration in Robotics (June 2020)

  • Member of Tau Beta Pi

Dartmouth College

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Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science modified with Engineering (June 2020)

  • Thesis: Safe Navigation for Autonomous Sailboats under Uncertain Wind Conditions
    • High Honors
    • Advisor: Alberto Quattrini Li
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa

Experience

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Software Engineering Intern, Fall 2020 - Summer 2021

  • Developed software for IceNode, a vehicle that will travel under the Antarctic ice sheet to measure melt rates
  • Designed and implemented vehicle firmware, including I2C and serial device drivers, data logging and telemetry
  • Developed new tools for analyzing Mars 2020 flight data

Autonomous Marine Systems

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Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2019

  • Migrated an embedded Linux platform to Yocto
  • Assisted with deployment and recovery of autonomous sailboats
  • Debugged and fixed electrical and software issues on the boats

FeatureX

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Software Engineering Intern, Spring 2018

  • Worked as member of a software engineering team at a startup
  • Developed a web backend for a machine learning based satellite imagery analysis platform

Thayer School of Engineering

Dr. Laura Ray's Robotics Research Lab

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Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2017

  • Analyzed ground penetrating radar data to detect crevasses in ice sheets
  • Applied a machine learning approach using MATLAB

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory

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Intern, Summer 2017

  • Researched and implemented a deep learning approach for bronchoscopy depth reconstruction
  • Best presentation award at the lab retreat
  • Co-wrote a SPIE Medical Imaging conference paper based on my research: Deep learning-based scene reconstruction of bronchoscopy from pulmonary CT: Clinical validation and feasibility study using subjects with suspicious solitary pulmonary nodules

Draper

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Engineering Student Intern, Summer 2015

  • Evaluated the capabilities of MOOS-IvP, autonomous underwater vehicle control software, for mine detection operations

Skills

Programming

  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • Rust
  • C++

Electronics

  • Soldering
  • Microcontrollers
  • Breadboards
  • Sensors
  • Motors

Software

  • Linux
  • Solidworks
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • ROS
  • OpenCV

Fabrication

  • Laser Cutting
  • 3D Printing
  • CNC Milling
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