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Career

· Motion Planning Engineer, Waymo2023–
· Intern, Facebook2017–
· PhD Student, University of Washington2017–2023
· Research Assistant, UC Berkeley AUTOLab2016–2017
· Intern, National Instruments2015–
· Online Privacy Intern, California Department of Justice2013–2014
· B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley2013–2017

Publications (10)

Dex-Net 2.0: Deep Learning to Plan Robust Grasps with Synthetic Point Clouds and Analytic Grasp Metrics
Robotics: Science and Systems · 2017
1,348
cited
Synthesis of Energy-Bounded Planar Caging Grasps Using Persistent Homology
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · 2018
25
cited
Privacy-preserving Grasp Planning in the Cloud
2016 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) · 2016
16
cited
Following Surgical Trajectories with Concentric Tube Robots via Nearest-Neighbor Graphs
International Symposium on Experimental Robotics · 2018
13
cited
optimizing Motion-Planning Problem Setup via Bounded Evaluation with Application to Following Surgical Trajectories
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2019
12
cited
Robotic Lime Picking by Considering Leaves as Permeable Obstacles
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2021
10
cited
Privacy-Preserving Cloud-Based Grasp Planning
2016
1
cited
Improved Word and Symbol Embedding for Part-of-Speech Tagging
2017
Minimizing the Fréchet Error of Task-Space Paths for Manipulators and Surgical Robots
2018
Optimizing the Design of Robot Environments via Interleaved Optimization and White-Box Motion-Planning
2022
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