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Internships and team roles — most of it territory that was new to me going in. Code stays unlinked where it is under NDA or not mine to publish.

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Spin Drift — GPS-denied navigation

Research Intern · Spin Drift Technologies · Nov 2025 – May 2026 · code under NDA

A from-scratch visual-inertial odometry pipeline in C++23: stereo cameras and an IMU in, live pose out, streamed to a PX4 flight controller as hand-framed MAVLink v2 (CRC, ENU-to-NED) so the link carries no dependencies. Pyramidal Lucas-Kanade stereo tracking, MAGSAC++ outlier rejection, IMU pre-integration on SO(3).

C++23 · OpenCV · PX4 / MAVLink v2 · Gazebo SITL · Jetson AGX Orin

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StateLens — path-exhaustive fuzzing

Research Intern · Phi Dynamics · May – Aug 2025 · code under NDA

Compiler and analysis infrastructure for a fuzzer that aims to exercise substantially every execution path through firmware: an LLVM pass rewriting program IR into a canonical deterministic form, a C++ constraint-graph path solver served over a socket, a customized AFL++ fork, and a Guix channel pinning the toolchain for bit-identical team-wide builds.

LLVM / C++ · Clang · AFL++ · Guix · Answer Set Programming

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low-signature link pi · teensy · pico — one stack

SPINE — covert short-range radio

Networks Lead · MIT Lincoln Laboratory · SOCOM Ignite · Sep 2024 – Apr 2025

A secure short-range radio for US Navy field operators, trading range for a minimal RF signature. Designed the custom protocol — framing sized to benchmarked NRF24 throughput — with one stack across Raspberry Pi, Teensy, and RP2040, plus HINT, a zero-interaction USB configuration loader for operators who cannot type under field stress. Demonstrated across two hardware generations.

custom RF protocol · NRF24L01 · Raspberry Pi · Teensy · RP2040 · MicroPython

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Teams 02

  • Cornell HyperloopTwo semesters on the electrical team’s software: a browser-based dashboard (Python Dash + Plotly, Docker) monitoring and controlling the pod’s electrical systems live, fed over a TCP serial-server bridge.
  • DetSitePublic website for AFROTC Detachment 520 at Cornell, built page-by-page to the official Air Force compliance checklist (AFI 35-101); complete, pending command approval.

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