I have a computer Science PhD and years of experience in developing and deploying novel…

• NIAC Fellowship

  NASA New Innovative Advanced Concepts Program

  2020

• JPL Discovery Award: Completing and winning a competed autonomy demonstration

  NASA JPL

  Sep 2018

  My team's distributed, high-speed, autonomous system outperformed competing organizations' system(s) in a graded, two-day formal test event on the Pacific Ocean.

• Team Award: Multi-USV Autonomous Swarm

  NASA JPL Navy Program Office

  Oct 2017

  Multi-USV demonstration of autonomous task allocation, distributed planning and control, and high TRL autonomy software framework (CARACaS) in real-world demonstration on Navy vessels.

• Team Achievement Award, Mars 2020 Rover

  NASA JPL

  Jun 2017

  For development of the new Mars rover auto-drive capability for launch on the Mars 2020 mission. Team designed, developed, and demonstrated a new path planning capability for fully autonomous long-distance traversals on Mars.

• Navy Swarm Team Achievement Award

  NASA

  Apr 2017

  The USV Swarm team designed, developed, and demonstrated state-of-the-art multi-agent autonomy for ONR’s “Swarm” maritime robotics program.

  More information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq-zUBgBtVg

• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

  University of Minnesota

  Jan 2014

  For "promising doctoral students in their final year"

• Dorothy and Charles Andrew Bird Award

  Sigma Xi Research Society

  Jan 2014

  For "excellence in academic research"

• ARCS 2-year Scholarship

  ARCS Foundation: Minnesota Chapter

  Sep 2013

  Recognition for academic research

• Chuck Sherwood Scholarship

  Computer Science Dept

  2010

• National Science Foundation MAX Scholarship

  National Science Foundation

  Aug 2009

  For Undergraduate Research.

• Three Year Computer Science Scholarship

  Computer Science Dept

  Aug 2007

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