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        <h1 style="font-size: 5vh;">Sidney Nimako</h1>
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            I'm a second year masters student in robotics at <span style="color: var(--madder)">Carnegie Mellon
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            I am interested in building human-centered robotic systems focusing on:
            search and rescue systems, assistive robotics, and safe pHRI
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            Currently:
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                <a class="prof" href="https://www.zoomlab.ri.cmu.edu/">Dr. Zeynep
                    Temel</a> and <a class="prof" href="https://shredlabcmu.github.io/"> Dr. Melisa Orta
                    Martinez</a>
                <br>on miniature-robotics for search and rescue.
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            Previously @: CMU Robomechanics Lab, DoorDash Labs, Meta FAIR
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                    <h2 class="sub-section-text">Heterogenous Collaboration: A new approach for search and rescue
                        operations
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                    <p class="sub-section-text">2024 IEEE SSRR (Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics)</p>
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                <h2 class="sub-section-text">DoorDash Labs </h2>
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                <p class="sub-section-title">Hardware Engineering Intern | 2022 + 2023</p>
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                    Electromechanical design and controls for a four quadrant dynamometer using a BLDC, customized C
                    firmware and MATLAB.
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                <p class="footnote">Internship</p>
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                <h2 class="sub-section-text">CMU Robomechanics Lab</h2>
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                <p class="sub-section-title">Undergraduate Research Assistant | 2022 - 2023</p>
                <p class="large-description sub-section-text">Simulations and models to understand the costs and
                    controls of
                    spined quadruped robots.</p>
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                    <h2 class="sub-section-text">Robotics Research Intern</h2>
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                    <p class="sub-section-text">Meta AI Research | 2021</p>
                    <p class="large-description sub-section-text">Contributed to the development of "D'Manus", a
                        three-digit
                        dexterous
                        robotic hand. Focused on sensor redesigns, detailed documentation, and tribology testing for
                        soft
                        capacitive sensors.</p>
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                <h2 class="sub-section-text">Biomotivate</h2>
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                <p class="sub-section-text">VR Development Intern | 2020</p>
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                    Worked with a Pittsburgh-based startup on VR experiences for those in addiction recovery. Developed
                    a data acquisition platform to analyse user interactions for research purposes.
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                <p class="footnote">Internship</p>
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                    <h2 class="sub-section-text">Toss Jugging In-Sim (and On Hardware)</h2>
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                    <p class="sub-section-text">Mechanics of Manipulation | Fall 2023</p>
                    <p class="large-description sub-section-text">Created a custom simulation of a toss juggling robot
                        in
                        MuJoCo and learned a DDPG policy. I also applied the co-design method to design a hardware
                        system to
                        embody the policy.</p>
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                <h2 class="sub-section-text">Trajectory Optimization for Constrained Dynamical Systems</h2>
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                <p class="sub-section-text">Mathematical Foundations for Robotics | Fall 2023</p>
                <p class="large-description sub-section-text">Implemented a model predictive controller for a spine
                    quadruped robot, which I also applied to a ballbot driving a wheelchair.</p>
                <p class="footnote">Class Project</p>

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                    <h2 class="sub-section-text">Phlebot</h2>
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                    <p class="sub-section-text">Mechatronic Design | Spring 2023</p>
                    <p class="large-description sub-section-text">
                        Prototyped an autnonomous venipuncture robot using custom mechanical and electrical systems. Led
                        electromechanical integration and co-led mechanism design.
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                    <h2 class="sub-section-text">Brevis</h2>
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                    <p class="sub-section-text">Spring 2023</p>
                    <p class="large-description sub-section-text">Fully custom macropad created as a precursor to a
                        full-sized keyboard and to explore electronics development.</p>
                    <p class="footnote">Personal Project</p>
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