// the timeline
A journey through impactful work
From soldering irons in high school to humanoid robots on the world stage. Every milestone below shipped real research, real code, or a real robot — here's the throughline.
// honors & recognition
Awards & recognition
National competitions, a best-paper award at the field's premier humanoid venue, and press coverage along the way.
// peer-reviewed research
Publications
Sixteen peer-reviewed papers across robotics and software-engineering venues — ICRA, IROS, IEEE-RAS Humanoids, and more — cited 140+ times.
Federal research funding
- Detecting Usable Planar Regions for Legged Robot Locomotion —
ONR N00014-19-1-2023·NASA 80NSSC18M0071 - A Behavior Architecture for Fast Humanoid Robot Door Traversals —
ONR N00014-22-1-2593("Breaching & Accessing Urban Structures with Humanoid Robots") - Bipedal Navigation Planning over Rough Terrain Using Traversability Models —
NASA 80NSSC20M0197
Invited reviewer — IEEE-RAS Humanoids (2022, 2024) · IEEE/RSJ IROS (2023, 2024) · MDPI Remote Sensing & Applied Sciences.
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