I'm a third year PhD student studying Robotics at the University of Utah. I earned my MS in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2024 and BS in Computer Science in Fall 2021, both from the University of Utah. I love robots and can be a bit of a visualization nerd but I'm proud of it. Outside of my academic pursuits, I enjoy biking (mostly road and gravel), swimming (mostly in pools, I got attacked by a swan when I was swimming in Lake Lucerne), baking, puzzling, mending and making clothes, going for walks and hikes, petting every dog I can, being a silly goose, and reading (or listening to) a good book. I have lots of other hobbies I want to try more like kayaking, sailing, bikepacking, and knitting.
I am currently a graduate research assistant working on motion planning for magnetically steerable needles and untethered magnetic screws. I have previously TA'd the graduate level AI course and Introduction to Robotics course (twice) at the University of Utah. I am advised by Professors Alan Kuntz and Jake Abbott working on my research in steerable needles and screws. I am also in charge of outreach for the Kuntz Lab, please contact me if you are interested in a lab tour. I am primarily focusing on robotics applications that help treat medical conditions or improve the quality of life of disabled persons. As an undergraduate I worked with Dr. Tucker Hermans researching 3D reconstruction methods that could be applied to several computer vision tasks.
I have worked on several projects recently, the most notable being:
- Screw-tip magnetically steerable needles
- An electrostatic actuator for a tendon robot
- A magnetically actuated cannula which resulted in a HAMLYN Symposium publication
- 3D object reconstruction in scenes with multiple objects
- Android app with remote music controls, texting, dialing, toggling do not disturb, etc. using an Arduino with gesture recognition
- Industrial inspection of Coca Cola bottles using the image processing toolbox in Matlab
- Baxter pick-and-place using contrained 6 DOF inverse kinematics
- Screw-tip Soft Magnetically Steerable Needles: TMRB 2023
- Magnetically Actuated Cannulas Can Assist In Their Own Insertion: HAMLYN 2022
- Introduction to Robotics Inverse Kinematics Course Lecture October 2023
- Computing Research Day Poster Presentation March 2023
- Artificial Intelligence Course Lecture March 2023
- Undergraduate Research Symposium November 2021
- Visualization for Data Science
- Visualization for Scientific Data
- State Space Control
- System Identification for Robotics
- Motion Planning
- Neural Engineering
- Robot Millisystems
- Micromachining
- Aritificial Intelligence
- Robot Control
- Intro to Robotics
- Image Processing
- Electrical Engineering
- Scientific Computing
- Human/Computer Interaction
- Computer Networking
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Computer Systems
- Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention 2022
- UROP Scholar Fall 2021
- Inclusion@RSS Fellow 2021
- NSF REU Summer 2021
- Senior Capstone Project Honorable Mention Spring 2021
- Dean's List