Experience
Qualcomm
May 2026 - Current XR Systems Engineering Intern
- Run capability evaluation and performance analysis for GPU workloads in VR/AR device contexts.
- Connect hardware constraints, graphics performance, and XR product requirements into practical system findings.
Tesla
Jan 2026 - May 2026 Computer Vision Intern
- Applied classical computer vision and ML models to identify manufacturing defects.
- Created a semi-automated annotation and augmentation pipeline for downstream model training and tuning.
- Improved ML inference and database interaction latency by roughly 2000x, from 1.4 s to 0.8 ms per image.
Safe Robotics Laboratory
Apr 2024 - Present Graduate Researcher
- Trained large foundation models, including VLMs and VLAs, with 3D perception for embodied navigation.
- Auto-generated photorealistic indoor 3D scenes for large-scale self-supervised navigation training.
- Built a humanoid teleoperation client-server system for Meta Quest headsets and MuJoCo simulation.
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024 Embedded Systems Intern
- Built agentic AI workflows for fighter pilots to request on-demand data visualization through voice interaction.
- Fabricated, assembled, and documented hardware prototypes for classified DoD projects.
SightWise
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023 Co-Founder
- Launched an AI visual scene description service that reached more than 1.5k users.
- Fine-tuned large language models for visual description and deployed GPU-backed services on AWS EC2.
- Used ONNX and Apache TVM to accelerate mobile computer vision models, reaching a 5x speedup on Android and iOS.
HEART Lab @ Asan Medical Center
May 2022 - Aug 2022 Assistive Technology Research Intern
- Developed a finger-worn visual-tactile sensory substitution device for human participants with blindness.
- Implemented object detection, segmentation, tracking, edge detection, visual grounding, and VQA models for real-time edge inference.