Maggie Wang

robotics, space exploration, photography, writing

I have always loved to tinker and build things in the world. I started from a young age with arts and crafts projects, moving on to scientific experiments, and then engineering projects. I’ve worked on many fun projects since:

• Robust pose estimation in perception systems (keypoint detection) for robot manipulation at the MIT Robot Locomotion Group (paper, slides) (Fall 2019 - Spring 2021)
• Illegal gold mining barge detection in the Rio Madeira using data from Sentinel-1 (radar) and Planet Labs (optical) using both traditional computer vision and deep learning techniques (paper) (Spring 2021)
• Novel compressed model architecture and integer quantization to run keypoint detection system on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE (Nordic processor) with an Arducam 5 MP Plus (Fall 2020)
• Outlier detection and cycle-consistent matchings for a noisy perception problem using spectral graph theory techniques (including spectral clustering and eigenvector embedding) (Fall 2020)
• Docking system for autonomous drones at Skydio (Summer 2019)
• Operating system with virtual memory, buddy allocator, processes, threads, wait queues, file system, disk support, buffer cache, signals and system calls (Spring 2019)
• Fixed-wing planes in the Harvard Undergraduate Robotics Club’s Unmanned Aerial Systems team (now the Harvard Undergraduate Aeronautics Club) (Fall 2017 - Summer 2019)
• Helped start the Harvard Satellite Team (Fall 2018)
• Embedded systems and vision processing for smart homes at Nest/Google (Summer 2018)
• Small model rockets with two friends, launched at my former middle school soccer field! (Summer 2018)
• Underwater robotics with the Harvard Self-Organizing Systems Research Group (Spring 2018)
• Magic mirror – Introduction to Electrical Engineering final project with three friends (Winter 2017)
• Control algorithms for drones at the Stanford Autonomous Systems Laboratory (Summer 2016)
• Robots with FIRST Robotics Team 1868, The Space Cookies (Summer 2013 – Spring 2017)
• Algorithms ran on SPHERE satellites on the International Space Station through Zero Robotics (Summer 2014 - Winter 2015)
• Galaxy formation and evolution using data from the Hubble Space Telescope in the Department of Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz through the Science Internship Program (Summers 2015, 2016)
• Face detection using eigenfaces with the programming team of my robotics team at Gunn High School Hackathon (Fall 2016)
• Sudoku generator and solver – AP Computer Science final project (2015)
• Bubboo Android game, released on Google Play (2014)
• Robotic ping-pong shooter and molecule random walkers at California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) in UC Davis, part 1 and part 2 (2013)
• iOS applications at various hackathons (2011-2013)
• Toy robot with a touch sensor to turn when it hit obstacles (2010)