Building and understanding autonomous systems
I am an MEng Design Engineering student at Imperial College London, working on robot navigation, learning, perception and teleoperation.
My research connects algorithms with the systems they run on. At Imperial’s Systems and Algorithms Laboratory, I develop TRUCE with Dr David Boyle: route-guided recovery and predictive continuation for quadrotor navigation. Our manuscript has been submitted to ICRA 2027.
I also work with Junyi Geng at Penn State’s Aerial Robots & Interaction Lab on UAV teleoperation and robotic manipulation, and Yiwei Lyu at Texas A&M University on physics-constrained wildfire forecasting. Earlier placements at Midea Group and KUKA Robotics covered mixed-reality teleoperation, open-vocabulary 6D pose estimation and household manipulation.
My degree is a four-year integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s, with graduation expected in June 2027. I am interested in PhD opportunities spanning robotics and machine learning. Alongside these projects, I am exploring connectome-inspired flight control; this work is currently at the research-design and data-preparation stage.
Outside research, I play bass in Melon Band and enjoy keyboards, film photography, Formula 1, racing, model aircraft and cars, and PC hardware. My design background also includes interactive products and user research.
Get in Touch
London, 2025
Skills & Expertise
Robotics & Hardware
- ROS / ROS2
- Arduino / ESP32
- Sensor Integration
- Motor Control
- 3D Printing & CNC
Computer Vision & AI
- OpenCV
- PyTorch / Open3D
- 6D Pose Estimation
- Object Detection
- Depth Sensing
Design & Prototyping
- Figma
- Blender
- Fusion 360
- Manufacturing-ready CAD
- User Research
Development
- Python
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- React / Astro
- C++ / MATLAB
- Git & CI/CD
Experience
UAV Teleoperation and Robotic Manipulation
Penn State University · Aerial Robots & Interaction (ARI) Lab · Research Assistant · Advisor: Junyi Geng · July 2026–present
I configure operator viewpoints and camera views for UAV teleoperation, and develop robotic-arm control functionality and software simulations to support teleoperation experiments. View project
Physics-Constrained Wildfire Spread and Fireline Prediction
Texas A&M University · Research Assistant · Advisor: Yiwei Lyu · July 2026–present
I develop fireline forecasts using differentiable anisotropic Eikonal propagation, and build FireBench and WRF-SFIRE simulation and evaluation pipelines. Comparisons consider physical and neural baselines, with fireline geometry and arrival-time errors as evaluation targets. View project
TRUCE: Route-Guided Recovery with Predictive Continuation for Quadrotor Navigation
Imperial College London · Systems and Algorithms Laboratory · Individual research · Supervisor: Dr David Boyle
Developed TRUCE around existing quadrotor planners. On 100 shared MetaUrban simulation tasks, reached the goal in 83% of tasks with no recorded contacts. First-author manuscript submitted to ICRA 2027. View project
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Electronics 1
Imperial College London
Ran first-year lab sessions, helped students debug analogue and digital circuits, and marked lab work with individual feedback.
Research Assistant — Humanoid Robotics
Central Research Institute · Midea Group · Foshan, China
Built a Vision Pro–based mixed-reality teleoperation system and an open-vocabulary 6D pose estimation pipeline (GroundingDINO, SAM-HQ, DINOv3, FoundationPose). Generated synthetic training data in Blender and deployed the π0.5 Vision-Language-Action policy for tasks such as pouring water and picking fruit.
Embodied Intelligence Intern
Laboratory of High-end Heavy-load Robots · KUKA Robotics
Implemented oven-door manipulation and screw-tightening tasks using stereo depth and disparity. Integrated self-developed robots into reinforcement learning environments (RoboCasa, Isaac Gym, MuJoCo) and developed ROS monitoring & expressive feedback interfaces.
Bassist
Melon Band · Imperial College London
Bassist in Melon Band at Imperial College London.
Workshop Manager
DesSoc · Imperial College London
Race Manager
Motorsports Society · Imperial
Managed Imperial’s BUKC 24-hour team: pit-stop strategy, ballast adjustments, driver rotation, and real-time optimisation during the endurance race.
MEng Design Engineering · 2023–2027
Imperial College London · Dyson School
Four-year integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, First Class expected. Coursework and independent projects span teleoperation, 6D pose pipelines, and computational design tools.