Engineering
Intelligent Machines

Leads production localization and navigation work for autonomous middle-mile trucks, combining multiple sensing modalities in real-time systems.

• Develops localization software using GNSS, IMU, LiDAR, camera, and wheel odometry.
• Applies probabilistic estimation and sensor-fusion methods to production autonomous-driving systems.
• Works across algorithm design, simulation, software implementation, testing, and vehicle integration.

Directed development and evaluation of spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control sensors and actuators.

• Led sensor and actuator design activities supporting spacecraft GNC architecture.
• Applied estimation, calibration, simulation, and systems-engineering methods to space hardware.
• Connected component-level performance to vehicle-level navigation and control requirements.

Led algorithm development for motion sensing, sensor fusion, calibration, and embedded intelligent products.

• Directed teams developing production-grade motion and sensing algorithms.
• Advanced calibration and fusion methods for inertial and related sensors.
• Supported deployment from mathematical models through embedded implementation and validation.

Built and led an autonomous-driving research and engineering team spanning localization, perception, planning, control, and simulation.

• Led a multidisciplinary team of approximately 20 engineers.
• Worked across the autonomous-driving stack, including localization, perception, planning, and control.
• Established technical direction for algorithm development, simulation, and vehicle integration.

Contributed estimation, sensor-fusion, localization, and navigation expertise to autonomous-vehicle development.

• Worked with inertial, satellite, vision, and vehicle sensing inputs.
• Applied probabilistic filtering and calibration methods to vehicle-state estimation.
• Supported real-time implementation and system-level testing.

Directed robotics, control, planning, and system-integration work for advanced industrial robotic platforms.

• Led robot kinematics, dynamics, trajectory planning, and control development.
• Connected algorithm design with hardware behavior and production constraints.
• Applied simulation and optimization to system design and validation.

Developed sensing, signal-processing, calibration, and embedded algorithms for force-sensitive input technology.

• Worked on sensor characterization and calibration.
• Developed signal-processing methods for robust force estimation.
• Supported embedded implementation and product validation.

Contributed navigation, estimation, and control methods to a wearable autonomous-camera concept.

• Applied inertial sensing and attitude-estimation methods to aerial motion.
• Supported autonomous flight behavior, navigation, and control.
• Worked within severe size, power, sensing, and embedded-compute constraints.

Developed and led embedded sensor-fusion, calibration, and motion-algorithm work for consumer and mobile sensing products.

• Designed production motion-processing and calibration algorithms.
• Worked across inertial sensors, magnetometers, and multi-axis fusion.
• Helped translate estimation theory into resource-constrained embedded software.

Developed mobile sensor-fusion, context-awareness, and positioning algorithms.

• Worked on activity, orientation, and context inference from mobile sensors.
• Applied filtering and calibration to heterogeneous sensor inputs.
• Contributed to embedded and mobile implementations.

Conducted research in air-traffic optimization, simulation, estimation, and decision-support methods.

• Applied optimization and simulation to complex aerospace operations.
• Developed mathematical and computational approaches for system-level decision support.
• Worked in a research environment connecting theory, software, and operational constraints.

Early work established the robotics, dynamics, control, simulation, and teaching foundations that informed later production systems.

• Developed robotic surgical-catheter kinematics, dynamics, and control at Hansen Medical.
• Worked on character dynamics and physically based animation at Motion Factory.
• Taught graduate robotics at Santa Clara University.
• Completed Ph.D. research at UC Davis involving nonlinear systems and a NIH-funded 6-DOF physical-therapy robot.
• Held additional engineering and research roles spanning simulation, controls, semiconductor equipment, and intelligent systems.