I am a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. My research focuses on motion planning in the context of autonomous robotic systems. This ranges from geometric problems such as planning the motions of robots that can be moved arbitrarily through a workspace, such as one robot moving to maintain surveillance of an moving target, to planning movements of complicated systems with interesting dynamics, such as path planning for humanoid robots. Common to all these problems is a fusion of planning algorithms with control systems techniques to achieve implementable algorithms for various robotic systems. Although most of my coursework pertains to robotics, control systems and motion planning, I also have a background in artificial intelligence, electromagnetics, solid state physics, and DSP.
