Dan is a recent graduate of UC Davis's mechanical and aerospace program and continues to volunteer in the lab while also working as a development engineer for a local sustainable energy NPO and pursuing his private pilot license. His work experience includes jobs in a machine shop, as a custom automobile fabricator, and internships at Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Intuitive Surgical. His research interests are human-machine interaction, haptic feedback systems, and robotics for medical and aerospace applications. In the fall of 2015 he will be entering a Master's program Carnegie Mellon University in robotic systems development.