Resume

Now

Customer-facing ML engineering on FiftyOne: working directly with teams across industries and time zones on computer-vision data workflows in a large codebase.

Experience

Applied robotics and ML R&D for defense and commercial clients.

• Built an image-segmentation pipeline end to end — data collection through deployment — raising model F1 from 77% to 99% via augmentation, dataset curation in FiftyOne, and fine-tuning Mask R-CNN in PyTorch/Detectron2.
• Fine-tuned a RetinaNet detector for a novel manipulation task; used unsupervised clustering for efficient data tagging.
• Wrote and calibrated a C++ ROS 2 driver for an RGB-D camera, from data conversion through intrinsic/extrinsic calibration and documentation.
• Led an internal effort on acoustic UAS detection and classification; authored the full technical volume for a $500k proposal on LLM-based intelligence estimation and contributed to a $10M proposal.

Autonomous ground-vehicle R&D for defense and energy clients: human-robot teaming, multimodal sensor fusion, and operations in hazardous environments.

• Lead architect of a multi-object tracking framework in Python/C++/ROS 2, fusing vision and LiDAR detections; optimized core algorithms to ~60 Hz for embedded robot hardware and ranked on the nuScenes tracking leaderboard. Published at IEEE RO-MAN 2024.
• Built a complete real-time robot audition system — sound-source localization, beamforming, VAD, and speech recognition — with custom PyTorch/TorchAudio models on a mobile robot.
• Army Research Laboratory graduate fellow (2023–24): proposed and integrated novel perception and foundation-model capabilities with weekly government stakeholder updates.
• Deployed commanding, localization, and navigation algorithms onto ground robots under contract with Army Futures Command — all objectives on time and on budget.
• In a team of seven, enabled autonomous manipulation behaviors from a single human demonstration (IEEE IROS 2023).

• Restored a non-functioning R&D ground robot to full operation in 10 weeks: sensor installs, fault isolation, Python/C++ fixes, and ROS integration of mapping and localization software.

• Progressively responsible engineering roles supporting launch and operations of satellite systems for US civil, military, and national defense agencies.

Service

• Robotics subject-matter expert supporting Army modernization through customer engagements and proof-of-concept studies, including the Army Applications Laboratory's Vertex Robotics event.

• 400+ flight hours of air missions: planning, risk assessment, briefings, and crew coordination. Deployed to CENTCOM 2021–22 (Operation Inherent Resolve / Spartan Shield); awarded the Air Medal with Combat Device.

Education

Dissertation: multimodal spatio-semantic perception and team performance evaluation for hierarchical human-robot interaction in dynamic environments.

Toolkit

Publications

• "C2HI: Towards a Command and Control Hierarchical Interface for Human-Robot Teams in Dynamic Social Environments." IEEE ERAS 2025 · primary author
• "MaRMOT: A Modular and Reconfigurable Multiple Object Tracking Framework for Robots and Intelligent Systems." IEEE RO-MAN 2024 · primary author
• "A Survey of Multimodal Perception Methods for Human-Robot Interaction in Social Environments." ACM THRI 2024 · primary author
• "Using Single Demonstrations to Define Autonomous Manipulation Contact Tasks in Unstructured Environments via Object Affordances." IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023 · co-author

Talks

• "Curating, Searching, and Evaluating Audio Datasets in FiftyOne." Voxel51 Audio and AI Meetup, August 2026 · video

Certifications

• FAA Commercial Pilot Certificate — Rotorcraft-Helicopter, Instrument Helicopter, Sikorsky S-70 type rating.
• FAA Remote Pilot Certificate — Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.