I am a computer science PhD student in the Columbia University Robotics Group working with Professor Peter Allen. My research focuses on building robotic perception and grasping systems. I have a strong interest in the interplay between robotics, simulation, and machine learning. While at Columbia, I have also had the opportunity to intern as a machine learning researcher at Clarifai, and spend the summer in the Hubo Lab at KAIST as an NSF EAPSI Fellow. Prior to graduate school, I earned a Bachelors in Computer Science (6-3) from MIT. I am also a contributer to the open source robotics simulator GraspIt!