About me

I’m a robotics researcher and engineer focused on autonomous systems that operate reliably in complex real-world environments. I’m at my best translating frontier robotics research into deployed systems—moving fluidly from mathematical formulation and algorithm design to production implementation and field iteration.

I’m currently a Staff Research Scientist at Chewy Robotics, building fleet orchestration algorithms for mixed mobile manipulator and wheeled robot platforms performing inspection and manipulation tasks in warehouse operations. My current focus is on 3D scene understanding and fleet-level task planning under partial information constraints.

I’m also building Habitat Robotics, where we develop sensing and AI systems to support wildlife conservation and ecological restoration. I’m passionate about deploying technology that amplifies the impact of conservation efforts by enabling ecologists to collect data more efficiently and providing actionable insights.

My research centers on scalable coordination and decision-making for multi-agent autonomous systems, including topics such as hierarchical task allocation, distributed optimization, multi-robot planning, and integrating machine learning with classical robotics methods. This work has been published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, RSS, ICRA, and IROS. More details on current and past projects here.

Previously, I was an Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics (reinforcement learning for dense robotic manipulation) and a postdoctoral researcher at UPenn’s GRASP Lab with Dr. Vijay Kumar. I was also a founding member of the Robotarium, the world’s first open-access swarm robotics testbed, now serving users from all continents except Antarctica.

I received my PhD in swarm robotics from Georgia Tech in the GRITS Lab with Dr. Magnus Egerstedt. Full CV here. Outside work, I’m an avid birder and enjoy hiking, running, and tennis.