About Me

My Experiences

Lee Iacocca once remarked that “We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” By perceiving existing challenges in robotics as opportunities instead of obstacles, I find joy in tackling these problems and learn a great deal from exercising my problem-solving skills and creativity. My current role as a robotics software engineer has enabled me to be part of the effort to build robust navigation systems and perception pipelines working within the ROS framework. For technical skills and frameworks, I’m highly proficient in C++, Python, ROS, openCV, PyTorch, Tensorflow, and CAD. My focus is on computer vision, sensor fusion, deep learning and autonomous navigation. I am currently working on developing state of the art computer vision solutions for human detection and obstacle avoidance.

Career

Open Robotics

Robotics Software Engineer (2022 - 2022)

• As part of the world’s leading open source robotics organisation, I worked on architecting a novel flexible manufacturing workcell systems and maintaining/deploying RMF (Robotics Middleware Framework).

Globotix

Robotics Software Engineer (2021 - 2022)

• As team lead, I planned the system architecture, organized the team, managed allocation of tasks and their priority, and ensured that the requirements were met. I helped to encourage proper documentation, writing of software specifications and set up a knowledge management system for the company. Some components that I actively developed are state machines to manage the transition between different robot states, coverage planners, docking, fleet management and diagnostics. Additionally, I have also worked on the web stack, which relies on NodeJS to host an interface for remote management of the robot.

Movel AI

Robotics Software Engineer (2020 - 2021)

• I worked on improving the perception and navigation stack of Movel’s AGV system. For perception, I have worked on a pipeline to utilise lidar point clouds for use in SLAM, developed autonomous docking systems based on fiducials and deep learning for human planners and developed several state of the art motion planning algorithms from research papers (both anytime and replanning variants) including Anytime Dynamic A, Hybrid A and State Lattice Planner. I have also written motor and sensor drivers and have hands-on experience in integrating ROS-based systems on AGVs from the ground up.

Internships

南京旭拟仿真技术有限公司 - Shanghai City, China

Mechanical Engineering Intern (2019)

• I worked on the analysis and development of a 6 Degree of Freedom Flight Simulator (Stewart Platform). Some of the skills I used were Solidworks, Matlab and Simulink. I did Technical drafting, CAD and kinematics simulation on solidworks, and wrote algorithms in MATLAB regarding the inverse kinematics of the Stewart platform to analyse it’s reachable workspace. In Simulink, I built a virtual model for the hardware engineers to test and visualise their algorithms.

Iron Drone - Tel Aviv, Israel

Mechanical Engineering Intern (2018)

• Iron Drone is an anti-drone company, based in Tel Aviv, developing autonomous solutions for aerial threats in sensitive airspaces such as airports, military installations etc. During my internship, I worked together with the team on numerous technical projects. I worked on various anti-drone mechanisms that can be mounted as a payload onto drones. I also worked on debugging autonomous navigation algorithms and testing them in a simulation. Another project I worked on was the design of a lightweight and structurally rigid gimbal that can be customized (through parametric design) and replicated (through 3D Printing) to fit different fpv cameras and drones. Throughout my stint, SOLIDWORKS, additive manufacturing and OpenCV (Python) was used extensively.

Aural-Aid

Product Development Intern (2018)

• My main task was to develop an IOT based variable Helmholtz resonator . In this project, I designed the iris mechanism that allowed the control of a variable aperture and utilised Fast Fourier Transformation for signal processing on a Teensy 3.2 development board. In addition, I utilised a laser cutter and 3D printer for my prototyping. Through the process, Solidworks, C++ and AUTOCAD were used extensively.

Education

National University of Singapore

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering (2016 - 2020)

• Activities
  • NUS Overseas College (Israel)
  • Financial Secretary (for College of Alice and Peter Tan Neighborhood Committee)
  • Programmes Committee member (Overseas Service Learning Bangalore)
  • Inter-College Games 2017
  • MYCAT Conversation Trail

IDC Herzliya

Adelson School of Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies (2018)

• At IDC, I took on a short venture creation programme where our team worked on a start-up idea and developed a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which we then had to pitch to NUS Enterprise (The entrepreneurial wing of my alma mater). Our start-up idea was a mobile application that would utilise computer vision to scan the user’s face and recommend make-up tutorials based on his/her features.

Tongji University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Exchange Student (2018)

• Activities
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Photography Club