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Here's an overview of what I did these past two months and the things that brought me excitement :)
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- I continued to build out Voltx, an ML product to accelerate testing for batteries, supercapacitors, and electronics during manufacturing. Recently, we onboarded an ML contractor, finalized our pilot partnership with two large supercapacitor manufacturers, and are currently testing our product on their data. We've also validated problem areas within PV, laser, LED testing that we can expand into and won ~$51k in funding to scale our team and work.
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Here's an 🔗article we wrote explaining testing issues for lasers, LEDs, photovoltaics, batteries, optical coatings, integrated circuit chips, and more!
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We're currently hiring for a front-end developer (contractor) to help us with the product for our current pilots. If you're interested in this role or know someone who might be — please email us at xvolta.tech@gmail.com and we'd be happy to discuss the next steps! Check out the link below 👇🏼for more information on the role.
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Working on Sophia the Robot with Hanson Robotics!
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- Wrapped up some of my work with Hanson Robotics where I was developing Neuro-Symbolic AI approaches for robot manipulation and interaction with humans. Hoping to go in person into their labs to test and implement this work further later this year (on pause for now due to COVID)! We presented our findings from this at AAAS this year.
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- In the meantime, I’m going to continue helping them with building SophiaDAO which is a governance organization where we will house the Sophia API, platform for people to license/build on and will get key players in AGI research to join, collaborate on her engineering/research and vote on Sophia’s initiatives through tokens in the network. We’re working on setting up the legal structure for this right now and will be launching more very soon.
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SophiaDAO: Governance Organization for AGI Development
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Publishing research paper with SJSU!
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- I was working with a professor and master's student at SJSU to develop a new 3D printed material, design, and algorithm to make prosthetics more affordable and easier to use. We put together a new prototype (currently in San Jose) and published a paper on our results of how we reduced the cost of prosthetics from $10k down to ~$700 with our material, hardware, and development costs. We will be publishing the full paper in IMECE 2021!
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Design of an Affordable Prosthetic Arm Equipped with Deep Learning Vision-Based Manipulation
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- I’ve been having a lot of interesting conversations with people at Hanson Robotics and Open Bionics to potentially mass scale produce these arms for low-cost robot arms for Sophia/other humanoids and prosthetics that we can open source or distribute. More on this soon.
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Putting together our updated prototype!
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Soft Robotics x ML for Stroke Patients!
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- I did research this month on how soft robotics and ML can be used for stroke rehabilitation. I published a blog on my research and created a simulation on this work. Check it out!
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Simulated control of a soft bio-inspired robot gripper using Q-learning to train the control policy for a simple manipulation task. Done with SOFA Framework using the Soft Robotics Toolkit by Harvard Biodesign lab!
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🔗Blog on how we can develop a portable, low-cost, soft robotic glove with Q-learning for sensing+control of the soft actuators for improved motion. This can be used during neuromuscular rehabilitation such as for strokes.
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The Harvard Biodesign Lab is working on cutting-edge research in this space to develop a soft robotic glove that provides repetitive stretching, exercise, and grasping assistance to people with limited hand function due to any neurological conditions. I've been having a lot of interesting discussions on how we can further this work with researchers there. If anyone else is working in this space, I would love to connect and jam out!
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Bluesky (Twitter) Ecosystem Review!
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I had the opportunity to work with a group of experts in blockchain and decentralized tech to develop a review of decentralized protocols for social media. This was part of the initiative called Bluesky (by Twitter). We published a review of the ecosystem in Jan which includes all of our research. Check it out if you're interested in Web 3.0 and the future of decentralized protocols!
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- I'm going to be joining the Interact community! It's a community filled with amazing technologists from all over the world and I'm very excited to learn and grow with everyone :) Thank you Matthew Jordan for this opportunity!
- Voltx was recently accepted into the Delta Fellowship (Human Capital) from which we will be getting amazing funding, support, and mentorship to grow our work! Thank you Baris, Emma and Armaan for this opportunity.
- Pretty much wrapped up last year of high school!
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- I spoke at the ODSC Webinar on my work at the intersection of ML, robotics, and healthcare devices. I'll share the talk link in the next few days once it's up!
- Had the amazing opportunity to speak with Espree Devora on her podcast Women in Tech Podcast. Take a listen to my episode here and let me know what you think!
- My work was featured in Yahoo! News. You can read the article here :)
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Kindred.Ai is on a mission to build human-like intelligence in machines. They bring together reinforcement learning, machine learning, and remote human guidance to create intelligent robots that solve real-world problems alongside humans in complex, changing environments like today's supply chain. I'm going to be joining the team as a part-time ML intern where I'll be working on a lot of exciting research in reinforcement learning, behavioral cloning, and imitation learning. Excited to learn and level up my skills 💪
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Reinforcement Learning Talk at CAMDEA Digital Forum!
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I'll be speaking about Reinforcement Learning at the CAMDEA Digital Forum on May 11th. You can register here to attend!
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Let's connect!
- I'm still deciding on my exact plans for the next year but a few options for university that I'm considering are Engineering/CS at UWaterloo, Engineering/CS at the University of Toronto, CS at McGill, and CS at UCSD. If any of you have gone (or know someone who has) to either of these universities, I would love to connect and chat more about the student environment, research, and work opportunities there! If you also know of any scholarships that you recommend applying to, please let me know :)
- I'll likely be in SF/Bay Area during June/July for the Delta Fellowship and my work with Kindred.ai. If you're in the area, would be great to connect!
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