Mid-level Computer Vision & ML Researcher specializing in medical imaging and 3D vision
Chapel Hill, NCCOMP 116 Instructor4 years experienceMid-LevelHealthcareHealthcare ITMedical Devices
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PhD (CS) candidate with hands-on autonomy and robotics experience: improved safety-critical behavior for Kodiak’s self-driving 18-wheeler trucks, increasing overtaking clearance by ~2 feet and reducing safety alerts. Also debugged a C++ SLAM system for 3D colon reconstruction and built a low-budget distributed simulation cluster using Linux, Docker, and Python, plus implemented multi-hop SSH-based comms for an underwater robotics competition minibot.
Experience
COMP 116 InstructorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Planning Engineer InternKodiak Robotics
Graduate Research AssistantUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PresidentUNC Computer Science Student Association
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilldoctorate, Computer Science (2026)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillmaster, Computer Science (2023)
Case Western Reserve Universitybachelor, Physics and Computer Science (2021)
Key Strengths
Improved autonomous truck overtaking-pull-over behavior using rule-based + deep learning inputs
Applied physics-based modeling to tune smooth braking under jerk constraints
Delivered measurable safety improvement: increased lateral clearance by ~2 ft (0.6 m) and reduced safety alerts
Deep debugging of SLAM pipeline (C++ concurrency/mutex issue tied to GPU shader cache and constrained storage)
Resourceful distributed compute: built an ad-hoc Linux cluster and orchestrated thousands of simulations with Docker + Python task pooling
Pragmatic heterogeneous robot comms: multi-hop SSH tunnel for minibot video + control via Raspberry Pi Zero
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