| Oct 22, 2025 | Presented GACL and Reward Training Wheels at IROS 2025 in Hangzhou, China 🇨🇳 — great conversations on curriculum learning and adaptive reward design for robot learning. |
| Jun 20, 2025 | 🎉 Three of our papers were accepted to IROS 2025 (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in Hangzhou, China: |
| Jun 05, 2025 | II-NVM, our normal-vector-assisted SLAM mapping work, was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (code). |
| May 23, 2025 | 🏆 Our DDP-based navigation system won 1st place in the simulation phase of the 2025 BARN Challenge (Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation) at ICRA 2025! |
| May 19, 2025 | Joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Software Development Engineer Intern on the RDS Proxy team in Bellevue, WA for summer 2025, building statistical performance-regression testing and visualization infrastructure that cut analysis time from 8 hours to 15 minutes. |
| Jan 01, 2024 | Formally advanced within the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at George Mason University, deepening my research on curriculum learning for robotics. |
| Aug 01, 2023 | Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at George Mason University, joining the RobotiXX Lab to focus on curriculum learning for robotics. |
| May 15, 2023 | Completed my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with research in 3D perception and AR-guided robotics. |
| Sep 01, 2022 | Completed advanced AI/ML coursework in Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, building the theoretical foundation for my research. |
| Jan 15, 2022 | Joined the Computational Engineering and Robotics Lab (CERL) at Carnegie Mellon University, developing 3D AR scene inpainting pipelines that achieved 92% accuracy and deepened my focus on robotics and computer vision. |
| Sep 01, 2021 | Started my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on robotics, computer vision, and machine learning coursework. |
| May 15, 2021 | Graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2016–2021). |