| Sep 10, 2026 | The KimoNav research notebook now opens with a recorded side-by-side replay of the two simulated tasks the reference governor rescues, a drawn pipeline figure separating the frozen ARDY and SONIC models from our own stages, and the ceiling and tracker-floor results that bound how far reference repair can go. All execution is simulation. |
| Sep 06, 2026 | The KimoNav research notebook now follows the path from motion priors to navigation executed in physics simulation: Kimodo/ARDY/SONIC explained, candidate-execution results, and a bounded-response prediction study with its failed promotion gate retained. No hardware is involved. |
| Sep 05, 2026 | New KimoNav research notebook: generated humanoid motion, matched adapter experiments, interactive performance charts, and the limits of our current offline results. |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Spent summer 2026 working on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL at AWS as a Software Development Engineer Intern, developing in C within the PostgreSQL-based database engine and contributing to Adaptive Join, an effort designed to improve join-processing performance adaptively. |
| Jun 02, 2026 | Adaptive Dynamics Planning, our learning-augmented framework for adapting robot dynamics fidelity to environmental complexity, appeared at ICRA 2026. |
| Mar 06, 2026 | Released Moving Through Clutter, our VR data-collection and evaluation framework and benchmark for scene-aware humanoid locomotion, with 348 trajectories across 145 cluttered 3D scenes. |
| Feb 01, 2026 | ColorMap-VIO, our drift-bounded visual-inertial localization work using prior colored point-cloud maps, was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. |
| Oct 23, 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 RobotiXX navigation system placed 2nd in both the simulation qualifier and physical finals 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. |
| 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 scene inpainting. |
| 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 deep-learning pipelines for 3D AR scene inpainting and deepening 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). |