Vetted Research Assistants

“Robotics software engineering intern at Bell Labs who overhauled indoor mobile robot localization in a ROS 2 stack, combining EKF + particle filtering with a neural network to handle BLE multipath disturbances. Delivered a major accuracy gain (~50 cm to sub-20 cm), earned a company Innovation award, published a paper, and saw the approach adopted across the company’s robot fleet.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and tuned a contact-implicit MPC controller for a full planar pushing manipulation pipeline (“Push Anything”), including a key fix for complementarity violations that eliminated “ghost pushes” and cut time-to-goal from 40s to 25s. Hands-on with ROS/MoveIt on real robot pick-and-place, improving hardware grasp reliability through TF/frame debugging, and uses Drake/URDF for simulation, contact detection, and MPC development.”

“IFC professional who helped build a supply chain decarbonization fund, running multiple workstreams spanning TA program design, MRV framework build-out, gender inclusion, supplier pipeline development, investor engagement, and engineering partner coordination. Known for critical-path prioritization and executive-ready operating systems (decision trackers, weekly one-page briefs, risk logs) that keep complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives aligned and moving quickly.”

“Robotics software engineer from Stanley Black & Decker’s autonomous team who built and deployed a ROS2-based model predictive control system for a commercial autonomous lawn mower, integrating real-time localization, Nav2 planning, and custom control under real-time constraints. Has hands-on field debugging experience (Foxglove, TF timing, covariance/noise tuning) to resolve issues that only appeared outside simulation, plus containerized deployment and CI/CD experience.”

“Robotics engineering intern and mechanical engineering master’s student who bridges hardware testing and ML/ROS2 software: built a PyTorch model to map motor test data across motor types using electrical specs (Kv/Kt/R/L) and validated it against new motors to meet strict torque/thermal accuracy targets. Also integrated CNN-based perception into ROS2 for real-time navigation and implemented MPC with time-synchronized multi-topic messaging to avoid stale-data control issues.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with a master’s thesis focused on domain-adaptive knowledge distillation for LLMs (LLaMA2/sheared LLaMA), showing improved perplexity and ROUGE-L on biomedical data. Also built real-world data linking and search systems: integrated ClinicalTrials.gov with FAERS using fuzzy matching + embeddings, and delivered an LLM-powered FAQ recommender at Hyperledger using sentence-transformers, FAISS, and fine-tuning to mitigate embedding drift.”

“Built and productionized enterprise LLM/RAG systems, including a Boeing internal solution that gave 400+ program managers conversational access to 1M+ rows of schedule data, with strong emphasis on governance, reliability, and reducing hallucinations in tabular domains. Also has experience running developer-focused workshops (UC Berkeley computer architecture) and partnering with customer-facing stakeholders to drive adoption of a compliance-sensitive NLP product (SEC-aligned) at Penserra.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep serverless AWS experience who built VidToNote, an AI video analysis platform, end-to-end using Next.js App Router/TypeScript and an event-driven pipeline (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Step Functions, SQS). Strong on production reliability and observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, structured logging), plus data/analytics work in Postgres with measurable query optimizations and durable LLM evaluation workflows. Amazon background; integrated 22 AWS services and completed AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification within a month.”

“AI/LLM practitioner with internships at Dell Technologies and Roche who built and deployed a healthcare-focused "Doctor LLM" by fine-tuning Meta Llama 3.2 on healthcaremagic.json, emphasizing safety guardrails to prevent harmful medical advice. Experienced in productionizing AI workflows with monitoring, testing, and orchestration (Airflow, Kubernetes), and in delivering AI-agent-driven competitive landscape insights to non-technical business stakeholders.”

“Robotics researcher focused on learning-based navigation: builds sub-goal generation and cost-to-go models (Bayesian network-based) integrated with motion planning and MPC/NMPC control. Has hands-on ROS 2 package development across vehicles, drones, and manipulators, and uses a broad simulation stack (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, PyBullet, PX4) to test and integrate systems.”

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

“Spatial computing software engineer focused on making Apple Vision Pro/visionOS accessible, including building VoiceOver and Live Captions features. Debugged a complex Live Captions issue involving dual audio inputs during FaceTime screen sharing by leveraging iOS implementation docs and creating concurrent audio sources; also has safety-critical testing experience from train control systems and is interested in pivoting into robotics.”

“Built and productionized a dual-agent LLM invoice-processing system for GFI Partners, adding guardrails and audit trails to earn stakeholder trust and drive adoption while cutting operational burden by 75%. Uses LangSmith observability to diagnose real-time workflow regressions and has experience teaching agentic AI concepts (e.g., at Carnegie Mellon) through hands-on, scaffolded demos.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience building Kafka-driven real-time pipelines that support ML code deployment and downstream integrations. Currently migrating high-throughput mainframe (COBOL/assembly) processing to Java, using Spark/Databricks to preserve performance and employing rigorous A/B testing across dev/pre-prod/prod with years of historical data.”

“Built and deployed an agentic, multimodal LLM system that automates privacy redaction pipelines (audio/video/tabular) using LangChain orchestration and a closed-loop self-correction design. Personally implemented and performance-optimized core CV tooling (face blurring with tracking/Kalman filter) achieving >100 FPS on CPU, and validated reliability with golden-dataset benchmarking across 100+ privacy intents and measurable redaction metrics.”

“Operations/business leader at Rent the Runway who led a cross-functional, Board-visible redesign and network-wide rollout of the company’s garment bag—a >$5M CapEx/OpEx initiative central to luxury customer experience. Known for aligning executives with conflicting priorities (cost vs CX), driving KPI-based operating rhythms, and delivering vendor/manufacturing wins that improved unit cost while upgrading product quality; previously led legal operations with strong confidentiality/privilege discipline.”