I have always been drawn to building and creating—starting with arts and crafts, then scientific experiments, and eventually complex engineering systems. I am an artist and writer at heart, a scientist and engineer by training. But most of all, I am passionate about learning and creating. Over the years, I’ve worked on a wide range of projects that reflect this curiosity.
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NASA NSTGRO24 Fellow, in collaboration with NASA JPL, Adaptive World Models for Space Robotics: Implicit Representations Grounded in Semantics and Physics
Industry Research
Designed and implemented a global graph-based planner, improved core flight algorithms for precise movement and multi-frame tracking, and trained optical flow models for subject localization at Skydio (Fall 2021-Spring 2023). Talk at the Women in Data Science Conference.
Embedded systems and vision processing for smart homes at Nest/Google (Summer 2018)
Undergraduate Research & Projects
Robust pose estimation in perception systems (keypoint detection) for robot manipulation at the MIT Robot Locomotion Group (paper, slides) (Fall 2019 - Spring 2021)
Illegal gold mining barge detection in the Rio Madeira using data from Sentinel-1 (radar) and Planet Labs (optical) using both traditional computer vision and deep learning techniques (paper) (Spring 2021)
Novel compressed model architecture and integer quantization to run keypoint detection system on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE (Nordic processor) with an Arducam 5 MP Plus (Fall 2020)
Outlier detection and cycle-consistent matchings for a noisy perception problem using spectral graph theory techniques (including spectral clustering and eigenvector embedding) (Fall 2020)
Operating system with virtual memory, buddy allocator, processes, threads, wait queues, file system, disk support, buffer cache, signals and system calls (Spring 2019)
Led team that built fixed-wing planes in the Harvard Undergraduate Robotics Club’s Unmanned Aerial Systems team (now the Harvard Undergraduate Aeronautics Club) (Fall 2017 - Summer 2019)