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Jan 21, 2026 Moderated a panel on Space Tech at Imagination in Action 2026 in Davos, Switzerland
Jan 03, 2026 Spoke at the Young Professionals Workshop at IEEE Rising Stars 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Dec 23, 2025 VISTA: Monocular Segmentation-Based Mapping for Appearance and View-Invariant Global Localization accepted to Robotics and Automation Letters
Dec 17, 2025 Delivered a keynote on “World Models We Can Share” at the AI & Robotics Hackathon and Competitions in Bangkok, Thailand
Dec 15, 2025 Delivered a talk on “Building Collaborative Robotics with Gaussian Splatting” for the MIT Media Lab Immersion Session in Tokyo, Japan
Dec 01, 2025 GRAND-SLAM: Local Optimization for Globally Consistent Large-Scale Multi-Agent Gaussian SLAM published in Robotics and Automation Letters
Sep 24, 2025 Selected as a Finalist in the Amazon Robotics Science Hub Symposium PhD Communication Competition
Jul 02, 2025 My research was highlighted in the Forbes article, Beyond Computer Vision, Brains In Jars, And How They See
Jun 25, 2025 Presented LunarLoc: Segment-Based Global Localization on the Moon at the RSS 2025 Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomous Robotics in Los Angeles, California
Jun 22, 2025 ROMAN: Open-Set Object Map Alignment for Robust View-Invariant Global Localization presented at Robotics: Science and Systems 2025 in Los Angeles, California
May 22, 2025 Delivered a talk on Perception and Localization for Lunar Exploration for Roxbury Latin at the MIT Media Lab
May 12, 2025 I received the Admiral de Flores Prize from MIT, awarded to a graduate student that demonstrates “Outstanding Ingenuity and Creative Judgement” in their research, and the James Means Memorial Award for Excellence in Space Systems Engineering
May 09, 2025 MIT Autonomous Pathfinding for Lunar Exploration (MAPLE), the team I led for the NASA Lunar Autonomy Challenge was awarded second place out of 31 qualifying teams
May 01, 2025 Recognized as GRA (Graduate Resident Advisor) of the Month for service to the community
Apr 24, 2025 Spoke on Boston New Techology’s Women in AI Panel
Apr 23, 2025 Awarded Best Lightning Talk for Rovers, Rocks, and Reasoning: AI on the Lunar Surface at the MIT AeroAstro SpaceTech Conference
Apr 15, 2025 Gave a lecture to the MIT First Year Graduate Seminar class on how to organize research papers
Apr 15, 2025 Spoke on the Physical AI Panel at Imagination in Action @MIT 2025.
Apr 15, 2025 Delivered an IEEE Technical Talk on Building Collaborative Spatial Intelligence for Multi-Agent Robots at Imagination in Action @MIT 2025.
Apr 15, 2025 Delivered a Forbes Lightning Talk on Enabling Multi-Agent Robots with Collaborative Visual Intelligence at Imagination in Action @MIT 2025.
Mar 03, 2025 “Moon BRICCSS - Moon Blocks using Regolith ISRU for Corbeled Construction of Sustainable Shielding” presented at IEEE Aerospace in Big Sky, Montana
Feb 07, 2025 Delivered a talk on Graph Theoretic Object-Based Localization in GPS-Denied Environments to the AirLab at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 28, 2025 Delivered the kenote address at the Women Innovators annual SheTech conference to over 500 attendees
Dec 06, 2024 Lectured on Gaussian Splatting to MIT, Harvard and Berklee “Designing Virtual Worlds” class
Nov 25, 2024 Our team was accepted to the Lunar Autonomy Challenge
Oct 26, 2024 Spatial AI For Collaborative Robotics talk awarded second place at the MIT AI Conference Annual Research Slam
Oct 19, 2024 Moon BRICSS presented at the the 6th Annual Space Architecture Symposium at IAC 2024.
Oct 16, 2024 ROMAN: Robust Object Map Alignment Anywhere and SOS-Match presented at IROS 2024
Oct 03, 2024 Presented SOS-Match at MIT Perception and Localization Seminar
Jul 16, 2024 Robotics and Regolith: Building Habitats from Moon Dust presented at TEDxBoston