The Team

Solomon Fenton

Team Roles:

  • End-Effector Team Lead
  • Primary Project Manager

Key Skills:

  • Project management
  • Mechanical/Mechatronic Design and Fabrication
  • Dynamics and Controls

Prior Experience:

Solomon previously interned at FedEx Ground and Meta as project manager (1-2 years). He Conducted mechanical design work in R&D segment for IMU-based consumer product and designed testing equipment for ensuring sensor calibration and accuracy at local sport technology startup (5 months).

Shri Ishwaryaa S V

Team Roles:

  • Perception Team

Key Skills:

  • Programming
  • Dynamics, Motion Planning, and Controls

Prior Experience:

Ishwaryaa has worked on trajectory planning for an under-actuated biped, trajectory tracking and adaptive control of 3D quadcopter, interned as an android app developer, designed an automated, continuous dishwasher system for college hostels, state estimation of William Otto reactor using KF, EKF & UKF, deployed an end-to-end ML pipeline, developed a basic conversational chatbot and a personal website

Sridevi Kaza

Team Roles:

  • Motion Planning Team Lead

Key Skills:

  • Dynamics and Controls
  • Motion Planning

Prior Experience:

Sridevi worked on a jumping robotic leg system where she focused on developing the control system and MATLAB simulations. She worked on a minimally invasive cardiac patch delivery device (design/fabrication and testing) for her mechanical engineering capstone project. Before MRSD, she worked in software consulting for a year.

Alec Trela

Team Roles:

  • End-Effector Team
  • Secondary Project Manager

Key Skills:

  • Mechanical Design/Fabrication
  • Python, CPP, Deep Learning, ROS

Prior Experience:

Self-taught Python, Cpp, ROS, DL (Andrew Ng courses), as well as some others. Other experience in the field comes from DIY projects as well as a Senior Design project related to an Novel Automatic Urine Output Measurement Device for Patients in the ICU.

Jiyoon Park

Team Roles:

  • Perception Team Lead

Key Skills:

  • ROS, ROS2, Gazebo
  • Full Stack Development

Prior Experience:

Robotics: Worked with mobile manipulators to draw TSP images on a large arbitrary surface. 

Software: Front-end/ Back-end development