I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering. Currently, I am researching environment perception, motion planning, and control strategies for self-driving cars. My passion for this area is driven (pun intended) by my life-long interest in robotics. This massively complicated field presents seemingly endless challenges and opportunities to apply the latest and greatest in machine learning and control theory. After graduating, I plan to enter into industry as a researcher.