NOW
I’m currently drafting my PhD thesis proposal on human intent prediction for autonomous navigation, as part of the Center for Complex Engineering Systems (CCES), a collaboration between MIT and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia. Robots that move through spaces shared with people need to anticipate where those people are going, not just react to where they are. My work focuses on the conditions that make this hard in practice: predictions that run in real time on board the robot, environments that change as the robot moves through them, and uncertainty estimates that a planner can use to stay safe.
MIT Mechatronics Research Lab
Cambridge, MAResearch Assistant
- Developing structured multitask Gaussian processes for probabilistic full-body human motion prediction
- Built a test rig pairing a UR5 arm with adjustable cameras for evaluating object detection and manipulation algorithms
- Evaluated and visualized how image cropping affects YOLOv7 object detection on a large-scale dataset, which led to our ICRA 2024 paper on how perception affects safety
BEFORE
NCTU Computer Games and Intelligence Lab
RemoteResearch Intern
- Trained a temporal-difference learning agent in C++ to play 2048, reaching the 2048 tile after 2,000 training rounds and a 93% win rate after 20,000
- Investigated how the probability of spawning a 4-tile affects score and learning speed