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Michael is a Robotics Systems Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the Robotic Surface Mobility Group (347F). He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Walla Walla University and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC). He has 3+ years of professional software engineering experience from working with Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). He has reverse engineered and architected large projects, developed terrain recognition AI while interning at JPL, and worked at the USC Interaction Lab on a human-robot interaction framework called HARMONI.