I am a senior undergraduate in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. My research interests are in robotics, control, state estimation, autonomous systems, and perception, with current work involving state estimation and predictive control for ground vehicles.
I have experience with experimental hardware, quantum-optics instrumentation, and PCB design. I like knowing why something works, not just that it does. Having built parts of the sensor and hardware chains that measurements come from, my instinct when an estimate goes wrong is to trace the error back to its physical source before reaching for a more sophisticated filter. That habit—connecting sensing, modeling, estimation, and control—is the main perspective I bring to robotics research.
Outside of research, I enjoy meeting people from different backgrounds. I am curious about how people arrive at different interests and ways of thinking, and a conversation could give me a new way to look at myself. At Purdue, I help organize career-related events for the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, which has given me opportunities to connect with companies from different industries. I value these interactions not simply for networking, but for the stories and perspectives behind them.
Porting TUM FTM's 3D vehicle dynamics estimator — a 3D point-mass EKF supported by a single-track UKF — from a race car onto a research vehicle with a weaker sensor set, then closing the loop with an NMPC trajectory tracker so that the cost of estimation error can be measured rather than assumed.
A layered strategy / planning / execution architecture for multi-agent racing. The low-level controller was carried through PID, ADRC, LQR and finally MPC, once the objective had to trade tracking error and control effort against strategy-dependent priorities. Team technical report, not peer-reviewed.
A stitching pipeline for drone survey imagery — 1,145 frames across eleven flight strips into a 99-megapixel mosaic — where onboard heading and GNSS cannot serve as pose ground truth. Benchmarking showed the imagery survives stitching essentially intact; the residual error belongs to a pose model with no per-frame heading and no scale, and seam artefacts follow the baseline between frames rather than the time between them.
A current-control box for the trap's magnetic coils, built end to end — board, fan-cooled enclosure, closed-loop test with a Hall probe. Presented as a poster and technical paper at the SURF Summer Symposium.
Circuit and RTL work on a student system-on-chip: SRAM and clock design, FSMs in SystemVerilog, PCB layout, and embedded drivers on a RISC-V core. Presented at the Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium.
A real-time Pong in RTL: the VGA timing generator (640×480 at 60 Hz), the pixel rendering module, and FSM-based game logic with collision detection, taken through simulation, synthesis and hardware debugging.
An audio stage driving a small speaker, with high-pass and low-pass filtering whose cutoffs are set by hand — so what each filter does to a signal is heard directly rather than read off a scope.
An LED shines through a fingertip and a photoresistor on the far side picks up the small change in transmitted light with each pulse. The signal is amplified and filtered on the breadboard and drives a second LED, which blinks in time with the heartbeat.
Two 555 timers: one runs slowly and sets the breathing rate, the other shapes that into a fade that ramps the LED up and down. A potentiometer on the first timer makes the rate adjustable by hand.
Two core EE courses. ECE 20875 covers Python alongside sampling, hypothesis testing, regression with regularisation, clustering and classification — the same statistics that sit under state estimation. ECE 20001 is the introductory circuits course, with a cohort of about 300: DC and AC analysis, first-order transients, diode and transistor fundamentals.
Résumé workshops, mock interviews, career fairs, and getting alumni in a room with students — with companies including Midea, Eli Lilly and Huaqin.
Bluetooth modules for automotive applications; digital IC packaging, layout optimisation, and production-line ESD compliance.
A physical Malkus–Lorenz water wheel built and tracked on video to reproduce the Lorenz system's sensitivity to initial conditions — trajectories that diverge from a 0.01 change in starting angle — and to work out why the wheel would not sustain rotation. Four-person team.
A green-GDP index built on the SEEA accounting framework, then multiple regression against environmental indicators and k-means clustering across seven countries. Four days, twenty-five pages.
British rock, hard rock, punk metal. Ran rehearsals, mentored junior members, played the shows.