Hello there! I’m a PhD student at the Neurobionics Lab, advised by Prof. Elliott Rouse. My research focuses on robot codesign: how a robot’s mechanical design and its control policy can co-evolve inside a simulation environment.
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Updated April 26, 2025
Fig. 01The Ballbot Always Wins
Origin story of the ROB311 robot that balances on top of a basketball
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Hardware and software toolchains for robotics research. Most of ’em are open-source and mostly work. When they don’t, someone awesome in the community (often someone like you) fixes them.
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I lead the Open-Source Leg as a research engineer for the past five years. In that time I also consulted briefly for the Robotics & AI Institute and co-developed the ROB311 Ballbot. Before coming to the US in 2021, what was I doing? I’m glad you asked.
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Most recent: “A Compensated Open-Loop Impedance Controller Evaluated on the Second-Generation Open-Source Leg Prosthesis.” IEEE/ASME T-Mech, 2025.
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