Undergraduate Research Assistant
Summer 2026Concordia College · Moorhead, MN
Comparative study of imitation-learning policies (Action Chunking Transformer vs. the 450M-parameter SmolVLA) on a real dual-arm SO-101 robot. Built the full pipeline end-to-end on Hugging Face's LeRobot framework — hardware assembly, teleop dataset collection (200 episodes, ~71k frames), training, and autonomous deployment.