Honors & Awards
A snapshot of fellowships, academic honors, competitions, and professional service earned across my undergraduate and graduate research career — the recognitions that have funded, validated, and shaped my work in tactile intelligence and assistive robotics.
Honors & Awards
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
Awarded a competitive, fully funded three-year fellowship to pursue Ph.D. research in adaptive tactile intelligence and closed-loop robotic manipulation. The GRFP is one of the most prestigious early-career awards in U.S. science, supporting outstanding graduate students with demonstrated potential for significant research achievements.
Magna Cum Laude
Awarded for graduating in the top tier of the engineering class, demonstrating consistent academic excellence across rigorous engineering coursework.
Hackathon Winner — 1st Place
Engineered a real-time virtualization pipeline integrating live depth-sensing camera telemetry into a 3D voxel-based environment within 48 hours. Recognized for innovative hardware-software synchronization and low-latency spatial mapping.
NSF Student Representative Nominee
Nominated by faculty to represent the university's research initiatives at the national level, based on contributions to sensor integration in embedded systems.
Academic Service
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
Selected to review submissions for the field's top journal, evaluating technical contributions in robotic perception, manipulation, and embedded control.
IROS 2026
Reviewing submissions for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems — a flagship venue for robotics research.
Generative Models for Robotics — CU Boulder
Delivered a guest lecture featuring live VR teleoperation of the XLeRobot-Pro platform, framing how generative policies meet real hardware.
Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group
Presented "Advancements in Tactile Sensing for Clinical Robotics" — bridging tactile intelligence research to a regional AI/robotics audience.