About Me
PhD Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Robotics) · UT Austin
I was born in Slovakia and raised in Brussels, Belgium.
I completed my BSc in Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands.
I pursued a minor in Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
I completed an MSc in Aerospace Engineering in the Controls, Autonomy & Robotics track at the University of Texas at Austin, where I am now pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) focusing on robotics.
My research interests are the safe deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs).
My research at the Autonomous Systems Group has strengthened my passion for robotics and autonomy, and I hope to contribute to the advancement of safe, efficient, and generalizable robotics to improve the world around me.
In my free time, I enjoy hiking, running, and playing tennis. I am also a long-term active member and volunteer at YMCA scout summer camps.
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education
Also accepted to MSc programs at Cornell University (MEng), ETH Zurich, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.