I’m a roboticist who builds dynamic robots and gets them working in the field. I lead Robotics and System Integration at the Allen Control Systems Innovation Lab in Austin, TX, where I prototype, integrate, and field test new sensors, platforms, and capabilities for Bullfrog, an autonomous counter-drone robotic weapon system.

Before ACS, I was a founding member of the Ultra Mobility Vehicle team at the RAI Institute (formerly the Boston Dynamics AI Institute), a Robotics Research Engineer at Aurora Flight Sciences working on counter-UAS state estimation and a DARPA adaptive control program, and an Army Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellow at West Point. I earned my Ph.D., S.M., and S.B. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT with Prof. Harry Asada.

My strengths are design, dynamics, controls, state estimation, and sensor fusion, and turning those into hardware that works outside the lab. I like challenging integration problems: new sensors, new platforms, tight timelines, and a demo at the end to close the system design loop.