AutonomyComputer Vision
Rapid Autonomous Intervention Vehicle
Senior capstone project — an autonomous vehicle that homes on a target by detecting a strobe light, then hands off to operator control for precision maneuvering.
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PropulsionRocketry
N-Class Hybrid Rockets
Propulsion lead for UCLA Rocket Project's Prometheus team — designed and test-fired five N-class SRAD hybrid engines, contributing to a 15,000 ft apogee (1.5× the prior collegiate record).
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FPVElectronics
Talon 1400 FPV Fixed-Wing
A long-range FPV fixed-wing built on the Flightory Talon 1400 platform, with a fully custom electronics stack and a redesigned nosecone to mount a DJI FPV camera.
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RoboticsKinematics
6 DOF Robotic Manipulator
Built a six-degree-of-freedom serial robot arm from scratch — derived DH parameters, solved forward/inverse kinematics analytically, and characterized the workspace and singularities in MATLAB.
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FPVFabrication
Nano-Gremlin
A sub-300g fixed-wing UAV with a restructured hull printed in LW PLA and custom electronics — built for low-altitude FPV flight.
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ControlsSimulation
Thrust Vectored Monocopter
Led a grad robotics team to build a thrust-vectored monocopter — inspired by Falcon 9 landing control but without the expendables. Hardware was too unstable to fly, so the project became a full PD-controlled simulator.
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RoboticsMotion Planning
Trajectory Generation for SCARA (Mitsubishi)
Joint-space and Cartesian-space trajectory generation on a Mitsubishi SCARA robot — cubic/quintic polynomials between waypoints and parabolic blends through via points.
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RoboticsKinematics
Lego-Building SCARA Robot
Led a SCARA robot build for a graduate robotics course — taken as a sophomore. Custom hardware, analytical IK from DH parameters, and trapezoidal velocity trajectories.
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AerodynamicsSensing
LIDAR Parachute Drag Study
An experiment to verify that increasing parachute surface area increases aerodynamic drag — using a LIDAR rangefinder to measure descent velocity across chutes of different sizes.
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Machine LearningComputer Vision
Lung Cancer Detection via Deep Learning
YOLOv3 applied to non-small cell lung cancer nodule detection in CT scans, trained on NIH Imaging Data Commons data to reduce diagnostic error and speed up radiologist workflows. Co-led with Robyn An.
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Computer VisionRobotics
Gretchen — 2DOF Gimbal Object Detection Robot
3D-printed 2DOF gimbal robot built at Seoul National University — uses color filtering, coordinate transforms, and YOLOv3 to detect, label, and track objects in real time.
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BiomechanicsResearch
Biomechanics of Acromioclavicular Joint Stability
Published research at the Orthopedic Biomechanics Lab, Pasadena — cadaveric testing of AC joint mechanics under simulated physiological loading.
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RoboticsKinematics
Jacobian Derivation & Kinematic Analysis
Full symbolic and numerical Jacobian derivation for a serial manipulator — singularity identification, manipulability ellipsoids, and workspace mapping in MATLAB.
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