I am an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at CU Boulder, co-advised by Nikolaus Correll and Alessandro Roncone. My work centers on the reflex layer — the tactile intelligence and embedded AI that allow machines to perceive and respond to touch with human-like sensitivity.
Drawing on my background at Medtronic and the MNS Lab, I build systems designed to act as force multipliers for healthcare workers — offloading demanding physical tasks so clinicians can focus entirely on patient well-being.
The robots of tomorrow won't just see the world — they'll need to feel it. My research targets the gap between today's manipulation capabilities and the physical intelligence required for safe, autonomous deployment in healthcare and assistive settings.
The convergence I'm working toward — tactile intelligence meeting embodied AI — will define a generation of robots that share physical space with patients and clinicians as trusted, responsive partners in care.
Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) — one of ~2,000 awarded nationally across all STEM fields.
New Paper Accepted! Our work on "EchoVision" was accepted to EIFCOM 2026 (co-located with ACM MobiSys)!
Submitted "Cutting the Cord" to IROS 2026.
Partnering with Dartmouth College and Children’s Hospital Colorado on next-generation pediatric health sensors at InsCy Lab.
Architected a standalone, low-cost edge-compute framework for bimanual mobile manipulation. Engineered a deterministic hardware abstraction layer using NVIDIA Jetson Orin to enable fully autonomous policy inference without external servers.
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A modular toolbox for 3D-printed compliant robot skins integrating multimodal sensing (ToF, capacitive, magnetic, EIF). My work focuses on manufacturing repeatability, sensing accuracy, and versatility across manipulation and HRI applications.
View Details →Collaborating with Pam Qian (University of Houston) on an NIH proposal for a soft, tactile-enabled nurse robot. Focuses on safe, compliant grasping and human-robot interaction for clinical care.
NIH Proposal (In Development)