I am a third year PhD student in MIT’s EECS Department advised by Professor Pablo Parrilo and Professor Russ Tedrake. I am broadly interested in optimal and efficient decision making, especially for large scale or complex dynamical systems. I am particularly interested in exploiting polynomial and graph structure to obtain tractable algorithms for problems in control theory and certification. In addition to my research, I am an active contributor to Drake, an open-source simulator for model-based design and control of robots.