Journey

Experience

From computer vision research to perception on real robots.

Work

OpenMind

Aug 2025 – Present

Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco, CA

  • Led robotics vision projects (face recognition, risk-area detection and avoidance) from data strategy and model training to deployment on edge devices and robot fleets via ROS perception modules.
  • Built real-time multi-modal sensor fusion pipelines for terrain analysis and autonomous navigation; fine-tuned and compressed LLMs for robot instruction following under edge latency constraints.
  • Shipped production perception features with hardware, robotics and operations teams, following privacy-by-design practices.
RoboticsEdge AIROSLLMs

Apple

Mar 2025 – Aug 2025

Machine Learning Engineer · San Diego, CA

  • Designed parallelized data analysis pipelines for large-scale datasets.
  • Implemented an image analysis model for quality metrics: categorization, object detection, lighting conditions and aesthetic scoring.
Computer VisionData Pipelines

Coherent Corp. (II-VI)

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

AI/ML Industry 4.0 Intern

  • Built an automated coating-inspection system for laser sensors with over 92% accuracy, using ROI segmentation, GAN-based synthetic data and an unsupervised normalizing-flow detector.
  • Designed a 3D-printed inspection rig with Raspberry Pi for the production line.
Anomaly DetectionGenerative Models

Shenzhen Huafu Technology

May 2023 – Jul 2023

Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer · Shenzhen

  • Optimized YOLOv8 for production-line debris detection on NVIDIA Jetson Nano (96% AP).
  • Used Stable Diffusion editing to augment rare scenes.
DetectionJetson

Education & honors

2023 – 2024
Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering

2018 – 2022
The Ohio State University

B.S. Computer and Information Science, Cum Laude

2022
Purdue University

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship