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.
| Project | Description | Tech Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 🧠 Jarvis — Agentic Orchestrator | A local-first agentic orchestrator routing tasks to the best model, running a multi-model planning council and agent graph with MCP tools. | Python Agentic AI LLMs MCP |
| 🏎️ ros2-micromouse-sync | A ROS 2 micromouse stack that mirrors a flood-fill solver between an mms GUI and Gazebo Harmonic in real-time. | ROS2 Gazebo Python C++ |
| 🧭 LiDAR Autonomous Robot | Maps unknown environments with SLAM and plans paths autonomously. | ROS2 SLAM LiDAR C++ |
| 🗣️ Project JARVIS | Voice-controlled assistant designed as a natural-language NLP interface to physical robotic systems. | Python LLMs NLP |
| 🚁 Autonomous Drone | A UAV platform focused on stable autonomous flight and navigation. | Drone Flight Control Embedded |
| 🦾 Robotic Arm | A voice-controlled robotic manipulator wiring an NLP pipeline to a physical arm for natural-language control. | Python NLP ROS2 |
Robotics & Autonomy
Embodied & Agentic AI
Programming & Software
Hardware
Prototyping & CAD
- 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.