About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW) where I work with Vikram Iyer. I also do some work in the Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab run by Sawyer Fuller. Before I joined the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, I did my Bachelor's in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UW where I performed research on origami structures with Jinkyu Yang in the Laboratory for Engineered Materials and Structures. My research interests include low-power application, small-scale robotics, Computing for sustainability, and the application of Machine Learning.

Research

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MilliMobile: An Autonomous Battery-free Wireless Microrobot

Kyle Johnson*, Zachary Englhardt*, Vicente Arroyos*, Dennis Yin, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer Mobicom 2023 [paper]

*Co-primary student authors

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Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers

Kyle Johnson*, Vicente Arroyos*, Amélie Ferran, Raul Villanueva, Dennis Yin, Alberto Aliseda, Sawyer Fuller, Vikram Iyer, Shyam Gollakota Science Robotics 2023 [paper] [preprint]

*Co-primary student authors

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Toward Sub-gram Helicopters: Designing a Miniaturized Flybar for Passive Stability

Kyle Johnson*, Vicente Arroyos*, Raul Villanueva*, Adriana Schulz, Sawyer Fuller, Vikram Iyer IROS 2023 [paper]

*Co-primary student authors

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A Tale of Two Mice: Sustainable Electronic Design and Prototyping

Vicente Arroyos, Maria Viitaniemi, Nicholas Keehn, Vaidehi Oruganti, Winston Saunders, Karin Strauss, Vikram Iyer, Bichlien Nguyen CHI 2022 [paper] [poster] [presentation] [video]

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Leaf-like Origami with Bistability for Self-Adaptive Grasping Motions

Hiromi Yasuda, Kyle Johnson, Vicente Arroyos, Koshiro Yamaguchi, Jordan R. Raney, Jinkyu Yang SoftRobotics 2020 [paper]

Outreach

I am cofounder of AVELA - A Vision for Electronic Literacy & Access, a STEM outreach nonprofit where I currently hold a board member position. K-12 STEM outreach is one of my passions, and I actively pursue efforts to widen STEM interest of Underrepresented K-12 students of color.

Contact Information

185 STEVENS WAY, CSE1 102 PAUL G. ALLEN CENTER, CSE DEPT. SEATTLE, WA 98195-2500
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