Researched obstacle detection and avoidance methods for autonomous UAV flight, working with onboard sensing to identify obstacles in real time and inform flight path decisions.
- Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper published at the AIAA Aviation Forum on a real-time computer vision system for UAV obstacle detection
- Fine-tuned a vision transformer model (RT-DETR) and benchmarked against an industry standard (YOLOv8), balancing accuracy, latency, and compute costs for real-time deployment