Journey Experience
From computer vision research to perception on real robots.
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
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