research

Selected long-form writeups. Drafts in progress are marked.

~/aragorn $ ls -lt research/ → 4 writeups

Semantic Segmentation for Robot Localization
in progress

Apr 2026 · ARIA Lab @ Colorado School of Mines

Novel localization methods for mobile robots, fusing semantic segmentation with object registration. ARIA Lab @ Mines.
- computer vision
- robotics
- semantic segmentation
- localization
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Novel CNN Embedder Architectures
in progress

Apr 2026 · ARIA Lab @ Colorado School of Mines

Companion piece on novel embedder architectures for convolutional image neural networks. ARIA Lab @ Mines, in progress.
- computer vision
- neural architectures
- embeddings
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Ionosphere Forecasting with PINNs and Diffusion Transformers

Nov 2025 · Northrop Grumman, Autonomous Intelligence and Robotics Lab

Physics-informed graph neural nets and diffusion transformers for ionosphere forecasting at Northrop Grumman's AIR Lab.
- physics-informed ML
- graph neural networks
- diffusion models
- symbolic regression
- ionosphere
- computer vision
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Synthetic Dataset Generation for Industrial Robotics

Jun 2025 · Ricoh USA

An architecture-level walkthrough of a synthetic-data pipeline for industrial robotic arms — Cosmos, Isaac Sim, OpenUSD, YOLOv11.
- synthetic data
- robotics
- diffusion models
- object detection
- Isaac Sim
- OpenUSD
- YOLOv11
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