As an undergrad at Cornell, I worked on two other robotics projects. Firstly, I was team-leader of Cornell's autonomous underwater vehicle team which competed in the AUVSI's international AUV competition. The second was an individual project to build a hexapod walker Bug. I also worked with the astronomy department on the Space Infra-Red Telescope Facility (SIRTF) project.

I, along with three other students, founded the BRAIN team at Cornell to build an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and participate annually in the AUVSI's autonomous underwater vehicle competition. Now known as CU-AUV, this team has become a class in the College of Engineering and is advised by Dr. Kevin Kornegay. My primary role on this team was co-team-leader, both administratively and technically. I also worked on the sensors suite and developed a hydrophone array to triangulate the location of a pinger.

After taking Dr. Bruce Land's course on microcontrollers (ECE 476), I decided to do an independent project building a hexapod walker I named BUG using only a small micrcontroller chip (the Atmel AVR 8515). BUG can walk forwards, backwards, turn left and right, and navigate through small mazes. It has just reactive control and senses using two little antennae.

During my senior year, I worked in Cornell's astronomy department with Dr. Jim Houck and others on data analysis tools for the Space Infra-Red Telescope Facilty. The project was a collaboration between Nasa, JPL, CalTech, Cornell and others. The facility was successfully launched in August, 2003.