Welcome to my web presence. I am a Senior Researcher in Microsoft Research Core – New York City. My research efforts span the complete ideation gamut of conceptualization, rigorous theoretical analysis, to abundant empirical and embodied proof-of-concept. I am a part of the robotics steering committee out of the embodied AI research efforts within the various cross-geographic teams throughout the company. Most of what I do as a researcher and the questions that keep me up at night can be found here on my research page.

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I am attending the next American Control Conference (ACC) in Denver, Co. Among other things, I will be (1) chairing the regular session of nonlinear systems' stability; (2) a panelist on the ASME industry-oriented student special session for students hoping to accelerate their career into industry; and (3) presenting this recent layered nonlinear control paper. Looking forward to hearing and learning from the leading minds in our community. May 21, 2025
Check out this sizzling hot complete and unabridged commentary on some of my recent research efforts surrounding safety and robustness in decision-making by autonomous systems and soft robots modeling and control. April 9, 2025
Entertain your mind reading this newly accepted ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) journal article. It describes our GPU-accelerated Levelsetpy safety analyses software package. April 7, 2025
Towards fast strain regulation in continuum robots, in this new ACC 2025 paper we argue for and demonstrate the efficacy of a decentralized continuum dynamical system whose whole-body strain dynamics is resolved in an adaptive and hierarchical nonlinear control fashion. March 30, 2025
Will you be at the next ICRA conference? I am but a weave within the rich tapestry of excellent leaders in the soft robotics community, fashioned together to disseminate the latest findings -- new hardware fabrics, mathematical/ML models, and control tools -- in a workshop on biologically-inspired embodied intelligence for modern robots and devices. Please see the workshop webpage for details. August 24, 2024
Together with Volker Pohl, I am co-chairing the computational methods in control theory at the next Conference on Decision and Control in Milan (December 2024). Evviva! November 5, 2024
Organizing an MSR-wide workshop in Redmond, WA for folks working on group theory applications for model and policy and representation in modern learning algorithms. February 24, 2024

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of the KOMs

As often as I can get away from the lab, I like to ride my road bike. I ride rain or shine, hell or highwater -- whether it's in the parching heats of sultry Texas, or the blustering cold winds of the Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard. States "bikeprint": MA, NH, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, FL, TX, IL, WI, IN, HI, WA. Below is a screenshot of my recent activities summary.


Recent Readings

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This web presence was last updated on Thu, Jul 10, 2025.