| 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 |