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Experience
Computer Vision Research Intern
Jun 2026 – Aug 2026
- Reduced inspector review volume by ~50% by consolidating redundant detections into unique defects on wind turbine blades
- Developed visual localization for an inspection crawler along 50–75 m blades, chunked into overlapping windows, using COLMAP SfM with sequential ALIKED + LightGlue matching on perspective views rendered from equirectangular imagery
- Scaled matching up to ~1M candidate defect polygon pairs per blade with a cascaded coarse-to-fine geometric verification filter
- Delivered 2–5 hour per blade single-node pipeline slated for deployment, with invention disclosure under internal patent review
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Mechanical Engineering Intern
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
- Owned end-to-end design and prototyping of patent-pending hinge mechanism from concept through alpha, translating benchmarks and user studies into specifications and first-order models for spring selection, material choice, and friction tuning
- Honed in on target torque profile through iterative fabrication and measurement of 3D-printed and CNC-machined prototypes
Graduate Engineering Intern
Jun 2023 – Sep 2023
- Achieved 100:1 LiDAR compression via H.265 encoding, enabling low-latency streaming for remotely-piloted helicopters
- Streamlined sensor testing without flight hardware by emulating onboard sensors from recorded video and packet captures
- Reduced real-time bandwidth by up to 3× via azimuth-level decimation and adaptive bitrate control
Undergraduate Engineering Intern
Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
- Expanded subscale helicopter testing infrastructure for perception, flight controls, and data logging from 1 to 3 units
- Integrated onboard power and data systems and bridged EKF and airspeed data from PX4 to proprietary flight software