Grace Kwak

I’m a recent graduate looking to start my career as a robotics software engineer. I'm interested in generalizable, data-efficient embodied intelligence. In particular, I'm excited to apply deep learning and generative models to trajectory planning and decision-making.

I'm currently on a gap year, during which I've built the drone model validation tool at Zipline and sharpened my programming skills at the Recurse Center. I graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in June 2024 as a Regents Scholar. As part of the Verifiable & Control-Theoretic Robotics Laboratory under Professor Brett Lopez, I developed a motion primitive sampler using deep imitation learning to accelerate an online long-horizon quadcopter planner. I also root-caused system instability in a rocket engine at Blue Origin and published a sci-fi novel called The Glitch.

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