I am a researcher working on advancing artificial intelligence and robotics.

I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego, advised by Professor Henrik Christensen, with industry research experience at Qualcomm AI. Prior to that, I earned my Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and my Bachelors in Computer Engineering from San Diego State University.

My research interests lie in the interplay between machine learning, robotics and computer vision. My PhD thesis: Democratizing Visual Robot Learning, focused on improving reinforcement learning algorithms for robotic applications. These improvements included accelerating training speed, parallelism, and visual robustness of reinforcement learning agents for sim-to-real transfer (SADA, MAD, Squint).