Expected Graduation - May 2026
I am finishing my dual degrees in Computer Science and Robotics at Michigan this May. It feels very different from Fall 2022 when I showed up for my first semester — back then I was still getting used to campus and the M-bot Omni and 8am physics. The combination of CS and Robotics was the right call for me because I wanted to work on systems where software and hardware meet: perception, planning, control. A lot of the classes that mattered most — SLAM, ROS, GPU Programming, the robotics sequence — lived in that space.
The Amazon internship was the point where the academic stuff really connected to real systems. Before that, a lot of my projects felt like one-off assignments. After it, I could see how the pipeline from model to hardware actually works and where the pain points are. I am not sure yet what I will do next; I am looking at roles in robotics and ML and keeping the options open.
Some things were harder than I expected (keeping up with three project classes in Fall 2025, for one) and some were better (the TA roles, the research, the people I got to work with). I will leave it at that for now and update this if anything changes.