Dartmouth '27, B.A. Environmental Earth Sciences modified with Computer Science. ORISE Research Fellow, USDA Forest Service. Google Summer of Code contributor in 2022 (OpenCV) and 2026 (dora-rs).
Agentic DORA (Google Summer of Code 2026, dora-rs)
An LLM agent layer over the DORA dataflow runtime that drives a UR5e with a Robotiq gripper through multi-step pick-and-place from a plain-language goal. Collision-aware RRT-Connect planning with forward kinematics and self-collision masking, obstacles registered into the scene at runtime, and automatic replanning when the planner fails rather than halting the dataflow. Delivered as 13 weekly PRs across the summer, with ~200 unit tests, a full documentation set and a rendered demo, all of it merged into main.
isaacSim-go2-humble: Isaac Sim 4.5 and Isaac Lab brought up on RTX-50-series hardware under Ubuntu 22.04, bridged to ROS 2 Humble Nav2 for a Unitree Go2 quadruped.
tracer-mini-ros2 · d1-ultra-ros2: C++ ROS 2 navigation stacks with online FAST-LIO localization, rolling-costmap Nav2, AMCL tuning, and a mission wrapper implementing a versioned robot-interface contract.
python-ironoak · java-ironoak: Google Summer of Code 2022 with OpenCV. Python and Java computer-vision libraries for FRC teams on OAK-D stereo cameras and the DepthAI runtime.
nksk-fuelbreak-tool · open the live tool
A planning tool for land managers on leeward Hawai'i Island: 280 candidate road segments, 198 km of corridor, 20 native species. Choose a planting palette, move the cost and drought sliders, get back a budget-constrained implementation plan. It runs entirely in the browser, and the whole scenario (palette, sliders, corridors, plan) is encoded in the URL hash, so a plan is a link you can send to someone. Built during an ORISE fellowship with the USDA Forest Service, Institute for Pacific Islands Forestry.
NKSK-greenbreaks: the Python pipeline underneath it (GeoPandas, Rasterio, Shapely, PyProj). Per-segment drought probabilities derived from 2000-2023 Hawai'i Climate Data Portal rainfall instead of one district-wide constant, native species suitability from NRCS climatic-elevation envelopes and climatic water deficit, and three-year implementation-plus-maintenance cost models. First author on a manuscript in preparation.
RoundaboutDesigner: an ArcGIS Pro add-in (C# / .NET 8) that screens every intersection in a U.S. city for roundabout conversion. It pulls OSM, FHWA HPMS, NHTSA FARS, USACE NSI and Census ACS data on its own, scores sites on five weighted criteria, recommends a roundabout type from FHWA thresholds, and estimates cost. A Gemini assistant with 11 function-calling tools filters, re-ranks and explains the results, grounded in FHWA guidance through RAG. The model picks tools and explains; the numbers come from code.
Languages Python · C++ (ROS 2) · C# / .NET · Java · JavaScript · Bash
Robotics ROS 2 · Nav2 · DORA · Isaac Sim & Isaac Lab · MuJoCo · robosuite · RRT-Connect · RoboDK · ArduPilot
Perception & learning OpenCV · DepthAI · PyTorch · imitation learning · diffusion policy · LLM tool-calling & agent orchestration · RAG
Geospatial QGIS · ArcGIS Pro add-in development · GeoPandas · Rasterio · Shapely · PyProj · GDAL · OSM/Overpass · TIGER · ACS
Bay Area, CA and Hanover, NH · LinkedIn · ORCID 0009-0008-6805-6461