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 between 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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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
Two papers accepted to the IEEE Control and Decision Conference, CDC 2024, Milano, Italia! Huzzah! August 27, 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

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(Strikethroughs signify societies I was a part of but whose membership I no longer belong).

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of the KOMs

As often as I can get away from the lab, I like to ride my (road/mountain/Grandma's) 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 I have ridden so far include: NY, NJ, MA, NH, PA, DE, TX, IL, WI, IN, HI, WA. Below is a screenshot of my recent activities summary.


Recent Readings

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2024 Readings
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This web presence was last updated on Thu, Apr 24, 2025.