Hello — I build eyes for robots.

I recently completed my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in the FASER Lab at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Erik Komendera. My dissertation — Deep Lunar Rock Assessment with Vision and Vibration — teaches robots to detect, reconstruct, and physically assess rocks on the lunar surface, so autonomous machines can clear and prepare construction sites before humans ever arrive.

Across 6+ years of robotics work I've built manipulators, mobile platforms, end-effectors, and 6-axis additive-manufacturing systems for NASA and industry programs — while developing the RGB-D reconstruction, point-cloud processing, and neural-network methods that let those systems understand what they see.