About

Hi! I’m a CS PhD out of Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and the EMBER Center for Embodied Intelligence & Robotics, advised by Shankar Sastry. I’m also Editor in Chief of the BAIR blog.

My research interests are in world models, embodied robotics, applied autonomy, sim-to-real and real-to-sim transfer, and agentic AI for adaptive robotics.

I’m a co-founder of Tensør (YC). I also support the machine learning research team at AI Racing Tech, where I was formerly simulation team lead and team manager. I helped found the Berkeley branch in 2021. Racing head-to-head at over 160mph, our team placed 2nd at the 2022 Indy Autonomous Challenge, 3rd at CES 2023, and 1st at CES 2025.

Before my PhD, I was Berkeley staff with the ROAR group under Shankar Sastry and Allen Yang, managing DARPA-funded programs including TIAMAT and ANSR, and before that spent three years in DevOps and test engineering at Rockwell Automation.

Feel free to reach out if you’d like to chat! My full CV lives on LinkedIn, and I’m always open to new friends on goodreads.