Recently completed my PhD in the NanoEngineering Department at UC San Diego funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP). My dissertation was on actuation for bioinspired, soft, swimming robots. I have coauthored over 15 publications on topics including uncooled infrared detectors, superconductors, micro- and nano-robotics for defense and biomedical applications, and bioinspired soft robots. In addition, I have interned at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and five startups. At UC San Diego, I co-founded the Association for Robotics Graduate Students (now UCSD RoboGrads) to help foster interdisciplinary collaborations between graduate students who are working in robotics and the greater San Diego community. I'm currently a Senior Medical Device Engineer in the Advanced Technologies group at Dexcom.
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From Innerspace to Outer Space
From Innerspace to Outer Space
Schematic illustration of magnetically guided, ultrasound-propelled RBC micromotors in whole blood, from "Turning Erythrocytes into Functional Micromotors."
Schematic illustration of magnetically guided, ultrasound-propelled RBC micromotors in whole blood, from "Turning Erythrocytes into Functional Micromotors."
Photo of soft, swimming robot actuator powered by dielectric elastomers with fluid electrodes, from "Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators."
Photo of soft, swimming robot actuator powered by dielectric elastomers with fluid electrodes, from "Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators."
Implementation of Electrostatic Glider model in JPL’s DSENDS simulator, from "Active Electrostatic Flight For Airless Bodies."
Implementation of Electrostatic Glider model in JPL’s DSENDS simulator, from "Active Electrostatic Flight For Airless Bodies."
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