Hi, I’m Michal!

I am a BAEF fellow and graduate student (MSc) in Aerospace Engineering – Controls, Autonomy, and Robotics at UT Austin.

I work as a graduate research assistant in robotics and autonomy at the Autonomous Systems Group.

Status: Ongoing

Focus: multi-view perception, uncertainty quantification

Ongoing research on multi-view perception fusion with rigorous uncertainty guarantees for safe autonomous operation, involving NVIDIA Isaac Sim.

TensorFlow RGB-D NVIDIA Isaac Sim Uncertainty Guarantees Live Deployment

Status: Ongoing

Focus: payload design, RL gait deployment

Custom payload development and reinforcement learning-based gait policy deployment on real hardware.

ROS2 Reinforcement Learning Perception

Status: Deployed at ABZ Innovation

Focus: real-time perception on UAVs

LiDAR-only Robust altitude estimation for UAVs in unstructured environments.

LiDAR C++/Python ROS Embedded

Status: Completed at TU Delft

Focus: ocean eddy detection

Python pipeline for detecting and tracking dynamic oceanic eddies from satellite data.

Python Remote Sensing Tracking

Status: Active

Focus: teaching robotics fundamentals to high school students

Hands-on sessions covering servos, sensors, Python programming, and hardware control to build an autonomous RC car.

Teaching Python Robotics Circuits