4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 82-105
While getting his graduate degree at Carnegie Mellon, Alex developed an autonomous picking robot for the 2016 Amazon Picking Challenge with a team of peers and members of the Search-based Planning lab. He was a teaching assistant for the capstone project course and developed a multi-robot demonstration platform.
After joining the Robotic Manipulation and Sampling team at JPL, Alex contributes to software development for autonomous robots with the goal:
"to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life... to boldly go where no one has gone before."
MS in Robotics Systems Development, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016
BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, 2012
2016 Carnegie Mellon University - Teaching Assistant
2016 Delphi Inc. - Autonomous Car Intern
2012-2015 Caterpillar Inc. - Powertrain Controls Engineer
Robotic Learning Techniques
Search-based Manipulator Planning
Robot design for robust autonomy