Education

2012.01 – 2016.08

Ph.D. in Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.

Advisor: Luis Sentis

Committee: Peter Stone, Ufuk Topcu, Benito Fernandez, Efstathios Bakolas, Eric P. Fahrenthold

2015.08 – 2016.08

Robotics Graduate Portfolio Program Degree, The University of Texas at Austin.

Advisor: Luis Sentis

Committee Chair: Peter Stone, Scott Niekum

2011.08 – 2013.08

Master of Science in Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.

Advisor: Luis Sentis

Committee: Ashish Deshpande

2007.09 – 2011.07

Bachelor of Science in Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Advisor: Huijun Gao and Lixian Zhang

Teaching

G.W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

2019 Spring, Fall ME 3017 System Dynamics

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.

2018 Spring Guest Lecturer, ML10-701 Introduction to Machine Learning.

Computer Science, Harvard.

2018 Spring Guest Lecturer on DARPA Robotics Challenge, CS189 Autonomous Robot Systems.

Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Lehigh University.

2018 Spring Guest Lecturer on ME245 Engineering Vibrations.

Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard.

2017 Fall Mentoring a team of three graduate students on their course project on trajectory optimization for Advanced Scientific Computing: Numerical Methods.

Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.

2016 Spring Teaching Assistant, ME 340 Mechatronics,

2015 Spring Guest Lecturer, ME 340 Mechatronics.

2014 Fall Teaching Assistant (voluntary), ME 397 Application Programming for Engineers (Python),

2014 Spring Teaching Assistant (voluntary), ME 340 Mechatronics,

2012 Summer Teaching Assistant, ME 205 Computers and Programming,

2012 Spring Teaching Assistant, ME 218 Engineering Computational Methods,

2011 Fall Teaching Assistant, ME 218 Engineering Computational Methods.