Affiliation

ACADEMIC

UCLA
Computer Science
Director Commotion Robotics Lab
Virtual Structures
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U of I, Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute, ECE and Physiology

Visiting Assistant Professo r
Model of visually guided locomotion in insects.


University of Waterloo
Kinesiology Department

Adjuct Assistant
Adjunct Associate Professor
Collaboration in human visually guided locomotion.

University of Arizona
Dept. Elec. and Comp. Engr
Associate Professor
Robotics and Neural Systems Lab

HRL Laboratories
Faculty Fellow

INDUSTRY

Puritain Bennett Medical
Engineer Advanced Development Group
Digital Filter Design, Data Analysis, human data collection. FDA clearance support.


Hughes Aircraft
Development Engineer (Mechanical)
Member of the Tech Staff I&II (Software)
Built first Robotic Snake
Mechanical and Software engineering
Machine Vision for automatiion

CAL-TECH Jet Propulsion Lab

Academic Part-Time
Teleoperated Exoskeleton Distributed high performance embedded control system.
Nasa New Technology award.

Qualcomm, Inc

Senior Director, Corporate R&D
Neuromorphic Computing
Deep Learning on Edge
Robotics
On device Voice Assistant


HP, Inc
Vice President and Global Head Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Compute Lab
Computer Vision, Neural Networks for enhanced audio, cognitive load. Large Language models for customer service. NVM for workstations.



ENTREPRENURIAL

American Medical Robotics
Co-founder

Automated HIV testing

Iguana Robotic, Inc.
Founder
Neuro-Robotics, Neuromorphic Sensors, Neural Chips.Visually Guided Locomotion using predictive networks, optic flow.

Government ONR, NSF, ARL, NIH contract. Funding from private companies


Elysium Robotics,Inc.
Board Mamber
Soft  DEA thread actuators


Seadrone, Orbotix, Inc.
Technical Advisor
Underwater Robots 

Education

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
B.S. CYBERNETICS-APPLIED MATH

COURSEWORK:  Applied Math, Computer Science, Control Theory, bio-psychology, physiology, philosophy

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
M.S. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

COURSEWORK: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics,  Control Theory, Computer Vision, Neuroscience, Computational neuroscience.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
PH.D. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-NEUROSCIENCE

Dissertation: Self-Organization of locomotory controllers in robots and animals

COURSEWORK: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics,  Control Theory, Computer Vision, Neuroscience, Computational neuroscience.

Publications

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