Patent application published: Autoregressive Models for Autonomous Agents (US 2026/0131822 A1).
Promoted to Staff AI/ML Applied Scientist at General Motors after GM acquired Cruise.
Promoted to Senior Applied Scientist II at Cruise.
MINDVAULT selected for the 2023 Vancouver Independent International Film Festival.
MINDVAULT selected for the 2023 Lady Filmmakers Festival.
Created Junkyard RAVE, a generative AI music instrument that lets users control the latent space of the RAVE model.
Created MINDVAULT, a short film using generative AI and live action to tell the story of a woman’s psychological experience during a traumatic event.
TechXplore coverage of our Science Robotics article.
Journal publication accepted at Science Robotics.
Started my post-PhD adventure as a Senior Software Engineer at Cruise, working on maneuver planning for autonomous vehicles.
Dissertation defended and published for my UCLA PhD.
Journal publication accepted at Engineering.
Science Robotics article covered in IEEE Spectrum, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and Tech Xplore.
Paper accepted for an oral presentation at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020.
Journal publication accepted at Science Robotics.
Invited talk at the ONR MURI meeting.
Invited talk at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Causal Imitation Workshop.
Paper accepted for an oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) 2018.
Invited lightning talk at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2017.
Invited talk at the ONR MURI meeting.
Two papers accepted (paper one, paper two) at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017.