- Graduate Research Assistant, SHARE Lab
- Robotics PhD Student, Oregon State University College of Engineering
- E-mail: prestonr@oregonstate.edu
- Desk: TBD Graf Hall
Research Interests
- Tactile user interfaces
- Human-robot interaction
- Robots as social aides
- Soft robots
- having feelings about robots
Bio
Professional
From November 2015 to July 2020 I was a practicing engineer for Framatome (formerly Areva) where I designed...
- boiling water reactor nuclear fuel
- smart refueling bridges for nuclear reactors
- robotic systems for non-destructive testing and examination of nuclear reactors
Education
- MS in Robotics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, May 2019
- MS in Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2014
- BS in Nuclear Engineering with minor in Physics, Oregon State University, May 2013
Misc
Some interesting tidbits, maybe
- I have a decade of technical theatre experience running the full gamut:
- props
- costumes
- set design and construction
- stage managing
- lightboard, soundboard, and stagehand
- I've done some blacksmithing (and would go back to it if I had a forge!)
- I ocassionally write stories and have been for most of my life
- I play video games, and off and on slowly work on making my own
- I'm queer
- I am not a website designer, and yet I keep trying
Extra Goodies
Tutorials
I've posted tutorials on a variety of topics over the years, links to some of them can be found here.