Building robotic systems that work outside of simulation — from the structures up to the software that controls them.
I'm a mechanical engineering student at Virginia Tech and Chief Engineer at VT CRO (CroLabs), where I lead robotics development. I work at the intersection of mechanical design and autonomy — turning hardware into systems that perceive, decide, and act in the real world.
I learn by building: microcontrollers, robot platforms, control software, and a lot of rapid prototyping.
- 🔭 Currently leading: HIVE — designing a system to onboard and coordinate heterogeneous ROS2 robot swarms from natural-language directives (in development).
- ⚙️ Also building: a LiDAR + SLAM robot, a voice-controlled robotic arm, and an autonomous drone.
- 🌱 Currently learning: ROS2 Nav2, advanced SLAM, and modern C++ for real-time control.
- 💡 Interested in: robot autonomy, mechatronics, embedded systems, and AI for the physical world.
- 🎓 Education: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech.
🧭 LiDAR Autonomous Robot — Maps unknown environments with SLAM and plans paths autonomously on ROS2.
ROS2 SLAM LiDAR C++ · Repo →
🗣️ Project JARVIS — Voice-controlled assistant built on Python and LLMs, designed as a natural-language interface to my robotic systems.
Python LLMs NLP · Repo →
🚁 Autonomous Drone — A UAV platform focused on stable autonomous flight and navigation.
Drone Flight Control Embedded · Repo →
🦾 Robotic Arm — A robotic manipulator controlled by voice, wiring an NLP pipeline to a physical arm for natural-language control.
Python NLP ROS2 · Repo →
Robotics & Navigation
Languages & Firmware
Hardware & Electronics
Design & CAD
AI & Machine Learning
- Chief Engineer — CroLabs (VT CRO)
- Leading the design of HIVE, an in-development framework for onboarding and coordinating heterogeneous ROS2 robot swarms.
- Mechanical Engineer — CroLabs (VT CRO)
- Co-developed a multi-modal (fly / swim / drive) robot; led structural design and packaging, and co-authored a paper on amphibious robotics.
- Technical Consultant — Prototyping Studio, Virginia Tech Libraries
- Help students and researchers with CAD, 3D printing, laser cutting, and electronics.