I'm a mechanical engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin, currently founding a stealth robotics startup, alongside robotics research through the UT Center for Autonomy.
Selected builds and the full project gallery are below, with my full work history at the bottom.
Previously, I built the forearm and hand linkage for a humanoid arm at YouiBot in Shenzhen. I also led a VEX Robotics team to win the 2024 World Championship, and won hardware awards at multiple hackathons with 1,000+ competitors, including UC Berkeley AI and Texas Venture Group.
Robotics is the next platform shift, and whoever makes hardware and data collection radically cheaper wins it.
Along the way I've designed 20+ robots and built a robotics education community of 14,000+ members. (I'm a native speaker of English and Mandarin.)
Projects
filter by all, industrial, wearables, competition, or hardware.
Experience
Engineer
Stealth Startup June 2026 - September 2026Hardware and robotics engineering at an early-stage stealth startup — details under NDA
Intern
Tess Ventures March 2026 - June 2026Sourced and evaluated deep tech and robotics startups for early-stage investment
Founder in Residence
Founders Inc. 2026 - PresentBuilding Inhabit, a robotics teleoperation hardware company, backed by Founders Inc. and NVIDIA Inception
Mechanical Engineer Co-op
Paradigm Robotics December 2025 - February 2026Robotics hardware design and rapid prototyping as a mechanical engineering co-op
Robotics Researcher
UT Center for Autonomy, Austin August 2025 - PresentDesigned a 6-DOF humanoid arm and unified test bench (HopeJr + SO101) for autonomous manipulation research
25K views
Mechanical Engineer
YouiBot, Shenzhen June 2025 - July 2025Led design of a humanoid robot arm and forearm in SolidWorks — production CAD on tight deadlines with electrical and controls teams
100K+ views
Founder, CEO, Consultant
Robocoaching, Online August 2021 - PresentBuilt the Robolytics coaching brand — 11,000+ members, 2M+ views, paid mentorship with top-tier robotics teams
Robotics Team Leader
VEX Robotics, Dallas May 2021 - July 20252024 World Champion, U.S. Open Champion, Skills World Record Holder — 30+ awards, 20+ robots designed in Inventor
Publications + Builds
Audio Driven Talking Face
Led and presented 1st place-winning research on improving audio-driven facial animation using FLAME and BEAT models at UT Dallas CAST.
Glasses from the Future (This Shouldn't Exist)
Built a floating display glasses prototype from scratch in 24 hours.
20K views
I Built a Laser Pen to Draw on Walls
Designed and built a laser pen that draws on any surface using light projection.
10K views