Projects

Here you will find some cool projects, or not so cool projects, that I have built, or am still working on over the years! Some are more theoretical and others are hands-on! They are sorted by chronological order, so the ones at the top are more recent!

Cable-Actuated Air Hockey Robot

A four-cable parallel robot for air hockey. Four corner-mounted MJ5208 BLDC motors tension cables that meet at the mallet; an overhead camera feeds a mallet EKF and a puck predictor; a receding-horizon (naive MPC) planner picks between defending and quintic-spline strikes every 10 ms.

Ten agents running continuous-time Lloyd under a Gaussian density

Coverage Control for Mobile Sensing Networks

Thirteen interactive demos of the coverage control paper by Cortés, Martínez, Karatas and Bullo: Lloyd descent, the asynchronous distributed versions, second-order and wheeled vehicles, and density-designed formations. They run in your browser.

Pixel Mirror: Real-time Multitasking and Virtual Gloving

ME 135/235 final project — a real-time LED mirror using YOLOv8 instance segmentation, MediaPipe Hands, a framed binary serial protocol, and an ESP32-driven 64×64 HUB75 panel, all orchestrated through a PyQt6 GUI.

Improvements for Inverse Lithography: Generative RL and Diffusion for ILT

Moving ILT from slow physics-based gradient descent toward conditional latent diffusion and GRPO fine-tuning, with a dual-stage architecture for offline curvilinear mask generation and real-time EUV laser dose compensation.

Development and Finite Element Implementation of a 3D Kelvin–Voigt Model for Finite-Strain Viscoelasticity

Developed a thermodynamically consistent finite-strain Kelvin–Voigt viscoelastic model and implemented it within a 3D finite element framework.

PAIR: Port Alignment Insertion Robot

A robust robotic manipulation system combining Eye-in-Hand visual servoing with force-guided spiral search for sub-millimeter precision USB-C insertion.

Constrained RL for Safe Legged Locomotion over Transient Terrain

ME 193B project exploring constrained RL for humanoid locomotion on dynamic stepping stones using IsaacLab and MuJoCo.

NMOS Chip Fabrication

Hands-on NMOS fabrication lab covering field oxidation, photolithography, polysilicon deposition, doping, and metallization on a ⟨100⟩ silicon wafer.

Redlining & Resilience: Exploring the Intersection of Urban Policy and Socio-environmental Vulnerability

Exploring the destructive legacies of redlining and their lasting socio-environmental effects in Oakland, Detroit, and New Orleans through interactive visualizations and spatial analysis.

Turbulent falling film and PINN analysis

Turbulent Falling Film Heat Transfer and PINNs for Convective Transport

Turbulent falling film analysis for molten salt solar receivers combined with PINN solutions for fully developed channel flow and heat transfer.

Engineering Analysis using the Finite Element Method

This project provides a detailed exploration of the Finite Element Method (FEM) for engineering analysis, from fundamental concepts to advanced applications in structural mechanics, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics.

Smart Load-Sensing Chair

A smart chair system using ESP32 microcontrollers and load cells to monitor weight distribution, predict structural fatigue, and provide visual, auditory, and haptic warnings.

Natural Convection Boundary Layer Flow

Numerical analysis of natural convection boundary layer flow using FTCS finite-difference, Runge-Kutta similarity solutions, and integral methods, with application to electronic device cooling.

Fully Developed Heat Transfer in Channels with Non-circular Cross-sections

We present a numerical investigation of fully developed heat transfer in channels with non-circular cross-sections using finite-difference equations solved via the Gauss-Seidel iterative method.

Evaluation of Measurement Reliability and Statistical Characterization of Thin Carbon Fibre Laminates under Quasi-Static Tension

Statistical characterization of thin carbon fibre laminates using Weibull analysis and quasi-static tensile testing for the Electron-Ion Collider at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Drone-Based Hodoscope Design

Designed and toleranced a drone-mounted hodoscope enclosure, integrated PCB systems, and developed failure analysis tools at ORE.

Compressed Gas Vehicle

A team project designing and manufacturing a small-scale car powered by compressed gas, featuring a Pelton turbine, HTD timing belt pulleys, and custom-manufactured shafts.

Wind Turbine Design Project

A comprehensive wind turbine design project involving aerodynamic blade optimization, structural tower design with internal truss systems, and performance testing achieving 1950 mW power output.