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Evolution and learning in differentiable robots has been accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems 2024. Learn more about the paper here.

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I am a PhD student in the xenobot lab inside the Center for Robotics and Biosystems at Northwestern University. My research program focuses on basic questions and methods in collective intelligence, artificial life, and soft-body robotics.

In the private sector I sit on the board of and consult with Vaginal Biome Sciences, a biotechnology company developing novel microbiota-based therapeutics.

I earned my MSc. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2023. During this time I worked with David Harwath in the SALT Lab and developed the leading methodology for supervised and unsupervised phonetic speech segmentation. My thesis can be found here.

Before that, in the QBI Lab at Oregon Health and Science University, I developed an evaluation framework for unlabeled cell segmentation, and in the Gardner Lab at the University of Oregon, I designed a neural model for multi-scale spectral analysis of bird song.

Outside of academic research, I have actively contributed to the real-time gesture recognition systems being built by Skywalk Inc. I have also worked as a software engineer, data scientist, and technical consultant for Fortune 500 and Y-Combinator companies.

I received my B.A. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley in 2018 where I derived a mathematical model describing the effect of environmental pollution of parasitic disease transmission.