Research Experience

SPARC Lab, Tufts University

Safe + Performant Autonomous Robotics and Control · Jan 2026 – Present Advisor: Prof. Ryan Cosner

• Designing learned Control Barrier Function (CBF) approaches that navigate the safety-performance tradeoff, adaptively modulating nominal controllers to remain robust under disturbances and distribution shift.
• Architected and trained policy distillation pipelines to produce adaptive safety parameters that adjust online to operating conditions, bridging data-driven adaptability with formal control-theoretic guarantees.

MULIP Lab, Tufts University

Multi-Modal Learning, Interaction, and Perception · Aug 2025 – Jan 2026 Advisor: Prof. Jivko Sinapov

• Built and executed multi-modal tactile data collection protocols on a UR5 manipulator across a range of tool-use actions, producing trial datasets for downstream reinforcement learning research.
• Investigated transfer learning for tactile perception, developing pipeline components for data preprocessing and representation analysis, and maintaining lab infrastructure and onboarding pipelines.