I am Spok, and I specialize in Service Robotics.
I am Spok, and I inspire people by making robots!
When I got involved with my high school robotics team, I became enamoured with the prospect of designing complex physical systems controlled by intelligent algorithms. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of sharing my passion as a lead of many tech groups and a teaching assistant at the University of Toronto, and later, while starting the campus' very own robotics club. By the end of my studies, I became very excited about machine learning as well, and I focused my Masters degree on the intersection of the two. I am currently refining my skills by developing service robots at Admetal Robotics, though I am constantly looking for new avenues to apply my knowledge.
PublicationsMEng in Aerospace Engineering, 2023
University of Toronto
HBSc in Computer Science, 2020
University of Toronto
PREVIOUS ASSOCIATIONS THAT HELPED DEVELOP MY SKILLS
Guided a team of three on the following:
Developing a player-following golf trolley with gesture control as well as ball tracking and obstacle avoidance features using YOLOv11, a stereo camera, UWB, and an RK3588 chip.
Fine-tuned/tested RDT-1B on a pick-place, sorting, and fine manipulation tasks for a 6-DoF arm and 2-finger gripper.
Built and tested UMI, DexCap, and LeapHand systems for data collection and teleoperation.
Built and programmed an autonomous mobile base with ROS2, a LiDAR and a depth camera.
Created an embodied autonomous assistant framework for one-armed service robots using ChatGPT, YOLOv8, and voice networks interfacing with a custom API and running on a Jetson AGX Xavier.
Engineered a golf push cart that follows people using TensorRT to run YOLOv5 on a Jetson Nano.
Designed a monocular part localization system in Python with for pick-and-place solutions using OpenCV’s implementation of SIFT.
Created a restaurant waiter robot using RTAB SLAM running on ROS with a LiDAR and RGBD camera fusion.
Led tutorials, assisted during lectures, held office hours, prepared course materials, marked tests and assignments, and taught the following skills:
Led tutorials, assisted during lectures, held office hours, prepared course materials, marked tests and assignments, and taught the following skills:
Led tutorials, assisted during lectures, held office hours, prepared course materials, marked tests and assignments, and taught the following skills:
Led tutorials, assisted during lectures, held office hours, prepared course materials, marked tests and assignments, and taught the following skills:
