Hi there! My name is James and I am a robotics engineer. I am currently a Ph.D. student at Temple University in the Mechanical Engineering department and work as a Research and Development Engineer for the Pennsylvania State University’s Applied Research Laboratory. My skill set is in the realms of autonomous navigation, kinetic and kinematic analysis, motion control, and route and trajectory planning.
For my day job I work with a research team that investigates how particle filters may be used to aid marine navigation. We use particle filters and various sensors to localize ships on geophysical maps of the Earth with future applications to come.
Personally, my research interests lie in using unmanned ground and air vehicles to automate difficult, dirty, and dangerous tasks that most people don’t want to do. I believe that robotic technology really does have the potential to bring about the wonderful futures we see in science fiction.
In my personal life I train in martial arts. I have a 3rd degree black belt in Chin Mu Kwan Tae Kwon Do. I have also recently taken up Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and currently train at The North Star Academy in Germantown, Philadelphia.
I have a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Temple University.