Agtech startup using computer vision and AI for precision agriculture. My role focused on robotics field tooling, thermal sensing, and dataset workflows around real crop data.
Contributions+
- Integrated a thermal imaging workflow using irpythermal with ROS2 publishers/subscribers in C++ and Python.
- Enabled GPS-geotagged thermal image collection for precision agriculture.
- Built a dataset sampling pipeline using ROI filtering, detector embeddings, UMAP, HDBSCAN, and grouped splits.
Harvard Microrobotics
Robotics Co-op
2022-09 to 2023-03
Startup-style robotics lab developing underwater robot fleets. My work supported teleoperation, autonomous behavior, embedded communication, and mechanical iteration.
Contributions+
- Developed a webserver using HTML, Flask, sockets, embedded C, and MicroROS.
- Supported teleoperated and autonomous operation of an underwater robot fleet.
- Collaborated on planetary gearbox design for robot locomotion.
Raytheon Technologies
Innovation / Robotics Co-op
2022-01 to 2022-05
Manufacturing automation work around a long-standing manual production process. My role connected robot motion, PLCs, vision systems, and fixture design.
Contributions+
- Contributed to automation using PLCs, a UR5e robot, and Keyence vision systems.
- Worked in a production-oriented manufacturing setting with real process constraints.
- Designed modular fixtures for circuit-card surface-mount equipment using CAD tools.
DEKA Research and Development
Controls Intern
2019-04 to 2021-07
Biomedical engineering R&D environment with controls, instrumentation, test infrastructure, and data collection around physical devices.
Contributions+
- Implemented a PID-controlled heating and cooling system via Modbus TCP/IP and LabVIEW.
- Developed RFID tracking integrated with Python and SQL for batch records.
- Built an Arduino and Python test bench for autonomous multi-source serial data collection.