Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in autonomous systems and controls
Philadelphia, PAGraduate Researcher6 years experienceJuniorRoboticsAerospace & DefenseGovernment
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Robotics software engineer/research lead building an off-road mobile base, owning system integration across mechanical/electrical/embedded and developing controls + motion planning deployed from simulation to hardware with ROS 2/ROS 2 Control. Has deep ROS 2 experience (NAV2, MoveIt) and built a GridMap-based off-road elevation-to-traversability mapping stack using nonlinear optimization; also tuned real robots using Vicon and developed a quadcopter geometric/PID controller.
Experience
Graduate ResearcherUniversity of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab – ModLab
Software Development InternNASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Supervisor / Lab ManagerUniversity of Pennsylvania Rapid Prototyping Laboratory Space
Philanthropy ChairPhi Gamma Delta (FIJI)
Researcher and Communications ManagerThe ASASE Foundation
Education
University of Pennsylvania - School of Engineering and Applied Sciencemaster, Robotic and Mechatronic Systems (2026)
University of Pennsylvania - School of Engineering and Applied Sciencebachelor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (2025)
Key Strengths
Led end-to-end off-road mobile robot R&D integrating mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software subsystems
Debugged simulation instability by identifying and correcting a Jacobian error
Simulation-to-real deployment of controllers using ROS 2 / ROS 2 Control
Real-world controller tuning using Vicon; reduced oscillations to achieve stable behavior through iterative parameter tuning
Built ROS 2 package for off-road mapping (GridMap-based elevation maps to traversability maps using nonlinear optimization)
Performance-focused ROS 2 development using multithreaded executors and C++ components
Hands-on quadcopter control optimization with systematic PID/PD/I tuning for fast response without oscillation
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