CTO/Co-Founder at Miso Robotics

Miso Robotics is an AI/Robotics company tackling challenging problems in commercial kitchens using the latest research in Deep Learning and Robotics.


Miso Robotics

Worked with Sundrop Farms to construct the world’s first fully renewable farm (at a project cost of over $200 million) in South Australia using Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) to desalinate seawater and provide balance of power. Our small team was able to deliver its first commercial installation on schedule; all milestone tests and opening day went exactly as planned. Responsible for designing control algorithms for field of over 23,000 heliostats (servo mirrors) to maximize power production without destroying the plant. Designed automated maintenance system to diagnose and correct failures in the plant without user intervention. Took ownership of automated testing framework, revamped and significantly improved test coverage.
    
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About us

  eSolar is a CSP Tower Technology Provider, offering industry leading heliostats, unparalleled control and simulation capability, and world-class application engineering services for CSP projects of all sizes.  eSolar's heliostats use a mirrored-glass reflector and a lightweight but strong drive for both axes of motion. Gridded in high-density fields, which are in turn tiled to match customer needs, our mass-manufactured and simple field-assembled solution offers milliradian pointing accuracy.  Using identical hardware and control strategies across plants of any size virtually eliminates scale-up risk.

Our modular Solar Collector System (SCS) works with any application requiring solar flux on a receiver.  We can produce steam directly at configurable temperatures and pressures for traditional steam use, and our products also offer dispatchable CSP using molten salt.  Both of these opportunities allow for electrical power production, coupling with desalination, or steam for industrial process heat. Our advantages and trajectory of innovation are demonstrated by successful commissioning of power plants around the world, using local labor and boosting local economies.  

The simple concept of making renewable energy cost-competitive with fossil fuel energy has driven eSolar to engineer a paradigm shift in CSP technology, providing a cost-effective and scalable solution.  We work with exceptional investors, suppliers, developers, contractors, and technology partners to bring these designs to life.


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Studied energy shaping as a means for stabilizing the energy dynamics of Lagrangian systems.


Texas A&M University has a proud history that stretches back to 1876 when The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas became the first public institution of higher learning in the state of Texas. Nestled in the heart of the Houston-Dallas-Austin triangle, Texas A&M University at College Station is the state's largest university, with nearly 65,000 students calling Aggieland home, and another 5,200 Aggies are studying at branch campuses in Galveston, Texas, and Doha, Qatar. Texas A&M's designation as a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution reflects the superior quality and diverse range of research and innovation occurring on campus daily.

Texas A&M boasts a strong military tradition, having contributed men and women in uniform to every armed conflict since the Spanish-American War. More Aggies commission as officers into the U.S. Armed Forces than any other school outside of the U.S. military academies every year. Student-athletes represent Texas A&M across 18 sports within the Southeastern Conference. Additionally, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located on Texas A&M's campus, as is the President and First Lady’s final resting places.

Quick to offer a cheery "Howdy!"​ to any visitor, Aggies pride themselves on their hospitality and strive to live out the University's core values of respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity, and selfless service.

To learn more about employment opportunities at Texas A&M, visit https://jobs.tamu.edu/.

Texas A&M University

Provide mentoring for students. Grade problem sets and exams. Write solution sets for problem sets and exams. Course description: “To enable students to design controllers for nonlinear and uncertain systems; and apply their designs to mechanical systems.”


Developed and implemented walking algorithms and software for NASA's Valkyrie robot. Below is a video in which I am operating the robot.


Studied human walking and its application to bipedal robots. Used motion capture to obtain human walking data. Used optimization to generate efficient and human-like gaits in robots. These methods have since been used to obtain walking on several humanoid robots.


The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary faculty, students and staff seek answers to complex questions, discover new knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future.

Caltech's 124-acre campus is located in Pasadena, California.

CTO/Co-Founder at Miso Robotics

Miso Robotics

CTO/Co-Founder

eSolar

Control Software Engineer

Texas A&M University

Graduate Student Researcher

Texas A&M University

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Texas A&M University

Graduate Student Researcher

Texas A&M University

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Texas A&M University

Graduate Research Assistant

Caltech

Electrical Engineering

B.S.

Texas A&M University

Mechanical Engineering

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Texas A&M University

Mechanical Engineering

Master of Science (M.S.)