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Currently Working On

(Dec. 2025)

Projects: Zima project: working on vision language action model implementation

Academics: Preparing for ETH Zurich Exchange!

Sept. 2025 - Present

Zima - Autonomous Rover with 5DOF Arm (BC + VLA)

Implementing and training vision language action models using behaviour cloning for simple manipulation tasks

Trained and evaluated visuomotor policy (Resnet + MLP architecture) for real world navigation tasks

Engineered tracked rover and 5DOF robotic arm from CAD design to ROS2 control implementation

April 2025 - Dec 2025

Software Intern - Cellula Robotics

Developed ROS2 C++ and Python software for long-range AUV control and navigation systems

Migrated system-critical legacy ROS code to modern ROS2, developed CI/CD pipelines in GitLab

Sept 2023 - Sept 2025

UBCO Marine Robotics - Software Lead

Led Marine Robotics software team competing at RoboSub 2024 and 2025. Ranked 11th internationally, 2nd in Canada

Designed modular autonomy and control systems using ROS2, Eigen, PCL, and PyTorch

Developed real-time semantic 3D mapping using YOLO object detection and stereo camera pointclouds

Implemented sensor fusion (DVL + IMU) for accurate navigation using PID and hierarchical state machines

Dec 2024 - Apr 2025

Research Assistant - UBC

Prototyped visualization solutions in Unity (C#) for large-scale curved displays

Integrated real-time motion capture (Motiv) and multi-system communication via Firebase

Developed mesh projection algorithms to handle geometric distortions on curved surfaces

2025

Rubiks Cube Solver

Rubiks cube solving program written in Go

Utilizes A Star search to explore the rubiks cubes state space

Solves a rubiks cube in 50 moves on average

Wikipedia Graph Web Crawler

Wikipedia web crawler capable of finding the path between 2 pages

Capable of graph visualization in real time using graphviz

Works by utilizing Best First Search and Jaccard Similarity

2023

CarnosaMNIST

Neuro-evolved Convolutional Neural Network for handwritten digit recognition, written from scratch

BARRY Autonomous Drone

Autonomous quadcopter with custom flight controller code

2022

hockeyBot

Autonomous robot that collects and shoots street hockey balls, senior year robotics team contribution

Python Chess Engine

Chess engine with minimax tree search, alpha beta pruning, and Lichess API integration

Currently Working On

(Dec. 2025)

Projects: Zima project: working on vision language action model implementation

Academics: Preparing for ETH Zurich Exchange!