Work Experience

Embedded Design TA - Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

  • Instructed students during labs covering FPGA boards, Linux, C++, Quartus Prime, and robotic arms.
  • Held office hours and extra lab sessions to answer questions on C++, Digital Logic Design, and lab assignments.
  • Graded assignments in Digital Logic Design and C++, focusing on pointers, dynamic memory, data structures, and object-oriented programming (OOP).
  • Verified lab instructions by pre-testing all materials before each session.
  • Course reference: EECE 2160 – Embedded Design: Enabling Robotics

Autonomy & Intelligence Lab RA - Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Dec 2023 - Aug 2024

  • Configured the Unitree Go1 quadruped with a 3D LiDAR sensor mount and deployed a full ROS2 environment on the onboard Jetson system.
  • Integrated DLIOM (Direct LiDAR Inertial Odometry and Mapping) for robust state estimation, feeding pose updates to the ROS2 Nav2 stack.
  • Enabled autonomous navigation by implementing custom ROS2 nodes to translate Nav2 velocity commands into high-level Unitree SDK control signals.
  • Project page: Go1 DLIOM-Based Autonomous Navigation

Hardware Automation Engineering Intern - iRobot

Bedford, MA

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Created C# libraries to program power supplies conveniently with SCPI commands converted to C# methods establishing serial communication over USB or RS-232.
  • Implemented image processing such as Bilateral Filtering, Canny Edge Detection, Binary Threshold, and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) to grade dirtiness of tile images in both Python and C#.
  • Created Python script to convert undistorted input images from calibrated fisheye camera into drawing trajectories for robots to follow during intern hackathon project.
  • Evaluated a robot's motion characteristics including parallelism, straightness, and coverage utilizing motion data captured by Qualisys.
  • Controlled a differential wheeled robot encoding joystick inputs, mapping them into wheel speeds, and sending to the robot as a part of iRobot Intern Challenge.

Computing Fundamentals TA - Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Jan 2023 - May 2023

  • Held office hours to assist students with Python programming syntax, libraries, and core topics such as data structures & algorithms (DSA), object-oriented programming (OOP), NumPy, and unit testing.
  • Graded Python assignments by evaluating code quality and comparing student submissions to grading rubrics.
  • Determined point distributions for each question based on difficulty and relevance.
  • Course reference: EECE 2140 – Computing Fundamentals for Engineers

Silicon Synapse Lab RA - Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Dec 2022 - May 2023

  • Designed custom actuator controller comprised of STM32 MCU, motor driver, DC motor, and hall sensor.
  • Assisted graduated students with developing PID controlled quadcopter.
  • Attended weekly lab meetings to share research updates and literature review sessions to learn recent researches toward Robotics, Control Theory, and Robot Perception.

Communication Equipment Maintenance - ROK Army

South Korea

Jan 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Maintained flight recorders, communication and navigation systems installed in 500MD, UH-60 (Black Hawk), and AH-1s (Cobra) aircrafts to be readily operable.
  • Repaired mechanical and communication components of pilot helmets.
  • Translated manuals of military cryptographic key loader and pilot helmets into Korean.

Electrical Engineering Co-op - Werfen

Bedford, MA

Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

  • Designed test setup to evaluate different types of temperature sensors (e.g., characteristic curves, and response time) using Arduino and MATLAB.
  • Designed test setup to investigate wavelength shifts of LEDs depending on their currents and temperatures using SpectraSuite and thermocouple.
  • Assisted engineers with building test fixtures for LED reliability testing and chamber testing.