Selected work

Projects

Real-time robot vision, Mars rover autonomy, agricultural robotics, and lunar prospecting. My contributions, alongside the team videos and coverage that show the engineering in context.

Autonomous Navigation DeveloperAug. 2024 - Aug. 2025

Texas Aimbots · TAMU RoboMasters

A real-time embedded perception stack for competition robots.

Trained and quantized YOLOv8 models for Jetson edge target acquisition.
Achieved <20ms vision inference with TensorRT acceleration.
Developed an FFT-based spin-detection filter for real-time counter-maneuvers.
Contributed to the team’s 2025 RoboMasters World Championship and U.S. Final campaign, including the North American competition in San Diego.

Coverage & field notes

Video · AggieNetwork · Team archive

Stories of Impact — RoboMasters

An AggieNetwork feature selected by the Texas Aimbots website. Background on the team and its engineering culture; this archival film is separate from my 2024–2025 work.

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Official record · RoboMaster · June 20, 2025

2025 North America final robot assessment

The organizer lists Texas Aimbots in the 3v3, infantry, and engineer challenge pass lists. This is an assessment record, not a final competition ranking.

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Autonomous Navigation DeveloperAug. 2024 - Aug. 2025

KARURA Mars Rover Autonomy Stack

Risk-aware autonomous navigation for a Mars rover platform.

Combined vision SLAM and multi-modal sensing for terrain-aware path planning.
Developed and tested the autonomy stack for the 2025 University Rover Challenge in-person final in Utah.
Worked on the U.S. side of a Japan–U.S. student collaboration, connecting perception and navigation with a physical rover.

Coverage & field notes

Video · 日本海テレビニュース · Nihonkai TV · March 2025

KARURA at the Tottori Rover Challenge

Japanese television coverage of KARURA at the Luna Terrace test field near the Tottori Sand Dunes. A view of the wider team’s field testing in Japan.

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Video · KARURA Project · 2025 competition season

University Rover Challenge — SAR 2025

The team’s official System Acceptance Review video presents the integrated rover for the 2025 competition. It documents the whole team’s system, including work beyond my autonomy contribution.

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Official record · The Mars Society · March 20, 2025

Final round of URC 2025 ready to roll

The organizer names KARURA and its Japanese and U.S. partner institutions, including Texas A&M, among the 2025 finalists.

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Software Developer2024

Autonomous Agricultural Robot

Computer vision and autonomous navigation for agricultural pest control.

Developed a computer-vision pest-control solution with SLAM-based navigation.
Combined visual recognition and robot localization in a hackathon prototype.
TidalTAMU Hackathon 2024 winner and Wolfram Award recipient.

Undergraduate Team Member2023-2024

RASC-AL · Lunar Crater Prospector

Large-scale lunar crater prospecting for the 2024 RASC-AL design challenge.

Contributed to Texas A&M’s undergraduate Large-Scale Lunar Crater Prospector team.
Our team received the Non-capstone Team Award at the 2024 Engineering Project Showcase.
Texas A&M Engineering covered the project in its showcase awards report.

Coverage & field notes

Coverage · Texas A&M Engineering · May 2024

Engineering Project Showcase awards

The university’s report names the RASC-AL 2024 Large-Scale Lunar Crater Prospector as the Non-capstone Team Award recipient.

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