I am currently a PhD student under Russ Tedrake and Alexandre Megretski. I am studying applications of convex optimization and algebraic verification to feedback stabilization and system identification. I received my S.B. in Computer Science and a M. Eng. from the EECS department at MIT.
experience
CSAIL/LIDS PhD student. 2009-
Joby Energy Summer Internship 2009
Project MAC ("Switzerland") M. Eng.2007-2008
Apple Inc., Sync Services Summer Internship 2007
Amazon.com Summer Internship 2005
papers
Invariant Funnels around Trajectories using Sum-of-Squares Programming.
accepted to IFAC 2011

Tobenkin, Manchester and Tedrake.

Regions of Attraction for Hybrid Limit Cycles of Walking Robots.
accepted to IFAC 2011

Manchester, Tobenkin, Levashov, and Tedrake.

Convex Optimization In Identification Of Stable Non-Linear State Space Models.
CDC 2010 (extended)

Tobenkin, Manchester, Wang, Megretski, and Tedrake.

LQR-Trees: Feedback Motion Planning via Sums-of-Squares Verification.
IJRR 2010

Tedrake, Manchester, Tobenkin, and Roberts.

interesting online books
projects
JacktLab/Jacktave - Jack Audio support for Matlab®/Octave®