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My name is Dan. I am a Ph.D. student in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Professor Michael Kaess. My academic interests are in robot perception, localization, and mapping. I am particularly interested in these topics as they relate to space and ocean exploration!

In my undergrad career I worked with Professor Taskin Padir and a fantastic team on NASA’s Mars Ice Challenge, and started Northeastern’s Chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (NUSEDS).

For more info on my projects check out my research page.

Updates

• Jan, 2024
  • Our paper “Asynchronous Distributed Smoothing and Mapping via On-Manifold Consensus ADMM” was accepted to ICRA 2024
• May, 2023
  • I started by internship with NASA JPL where I will work on the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) project!
• Jan, 2023
  • Our paper “Robust Incremental Smoothing and Mapping (riSAM) was accepted to ICRA 2023
• June, 2022
  • I started my internship with NASA Goddard where I will spend the summer researching methods for Lunar localization.
• April, 2022
  • I was accepted the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program!