Industrial Experience

Miniature parallel gimbal

Aeryon Labs Inc. (url)
Research Assistant (2007-2008)

Additional details
  • Designed a 46g two-degree-of-freedom motorized camera gimbal, the smallest in the world at the time
  • Ouerfelli and Kumar's (paper) spherical 5 bar parallel linkage, and Gosselin's 2Dof Agile Eye (url) were used as inspiration for this miniaturized version of the mechanism

Software interface to simulate a piano action

Professor Stephen Birkett (url) and Steinway & Sons NY
Research Assistant (2005-2009, part-time)

Additional details
  • Developed software to pre-process, simulate, and post-process a dynamic model of the piano action (C++ and Java)
  • The simulation studio made use of Martin Hirschkorn's dynamic piano action model

Berkeley pervasive computing mote

Sun Microsystems (url), Sun Laboratories
Research Intern (2004, 4 months)

Additional details
  • Debugged the world's smallest secure webserver (using 3 LEDs) and implemented a data link layer for the Berkeley motes
  • Part of the team that won the 2005 Mark Weiser award at PERCOM (paper)

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Husky Injection Molding, Robotics Division
Controls Design Engineering Student (2003, 4 months)

Additional details
  • Developed software that reduced the configuration time for a Husky robot from 50 minutes to 2 minutes.

Bombardier mass transit logo

Bombardier Mass Transit
Engineering Student (2001-2002, 8 months)

Additional details
  • Developed a simulation of the Las Vegas monorail system. Programmed the touch screen interface for the monorail. Product research for tire pressure monitoring and heat detection systems