.: biography :.

I'm currently a graduate student studying robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Computer Science. I'm a member of the Learning Agents Research Group, which is led by my supervising professor, Peter Stone. I'm also an active member of the Reinforcement Learning Reading Group and the Agents that Learn from Humans Reading Group.

My primary research interest is robotic learning, namely investigating ways in which humans can transfer knowledge to robots. More generally, I'm interested in reinforcement learning, multiagent systems, and learning from demonstration. I recently completed my undergraduate degree in the Turing Scholars Honors Computer Science Program. My thesis was titled "Exploiting Human Motor Skills for Training Bipedal Robots", and the framework I developed can be seen in this video.

I'm currently an intern at TRACLabs working on a distributed, multi-agent system for Deep Space Networks. In the past, I have been an intern at Amazon.com, a research fellow at the University of Virginia working on computer-aided geriatric gait analysis, a senior student associate at Applied Research Laboratories, and even started my own web design company in high school.

My entire immediate family are professional musicians, so music has always played a big part in my life. I started playing the cello when I was three years old, and since then I have picked up guitar and piano. I also enjoy speaking German, snowboarding, running, biking, and playing racquetball.