CV

Education

• PhD Student in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2027
  • Thesis: "Computational Design of Kinematic Robots via Fabricable Tubes"
  • Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Sung
  • MSE in Computer and Information Science earned along the way
• BS in Computer Science (minor in Mathematics), Haverford College, 2020

Other Research Appointments

• Summer 2019: Search-Based Planning Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Advisors: Dr. Maxim Likhachev, Shohin Mukherjee
  • Researched multi‑UAV persistent coverage in the Search‑Based Planning Lab.
  • Developed goal position assignment technique which accounts for the robot's angle when determining desirability and feasibility.
• Summer 2018: Applied Computational Robotics REU, University of South Carolina
  • Advisor: Dr. Jason O'Kane (now at Texas A&M)
  • Developed graph generation approach for the state space of an unreliable, minimal‑sensing robot for coverage planning.
• Summer 2017-Spring 2018: CS Research Assistant, Haverford College
  • Advisor: Dr. David Wonnacott
  • Used Chapel iterators to express optimizations of array codes with runtime verification of data flow correctness.

Skills

• Python: numpy, matplotlib, pyqt, roboticstoolbox
• C++
• Arduino
• LaTeX
• Inkscape

Publications

Artistic Non-Inertial Tracer (ANT): an Educational Kit for a 3-Link Origami Slithering Robot

Daniel Feshbach, Alex Chi, Eric Huang, Diedra Krieger, and Cynthia Sung

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition , 2025



Algorithmic Design of Kinematic Trees Based on CSC Dubins Planning for Link Shapes

Daniel Feshbach, Wei-Hsi Chen, Ling Xu, Emil Schaumburg, Isabella Huang, and Cynthia Sung

Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) , 2024



Kinegami: Open-source Software for Creating Kinematic Chains from Tubular Origami

Daniel Feshbach, Wei-Hsi Chen, Daniel E. Koditschek, and Cynthia Sung

8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics, and Education (8OSME) , 2024



CurveQuad: A Centimeter-Scale Origami Quadruped that Leverages Curved Creases to Self-Fold and Crawl with One Motor

Daniel Feshbach, Xuelin Wu, Satviki Vasireddy, Louis Beardell, Bao To, Yuliy Baryshnikov, and Cynthia Sung

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , 2023



Reconfiguring Non-Convex Holes in Pivoting Modular Cube Robots

Daniel Feshbach and Cynthia Sung

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters , 2021



Guaranteed Coverage with a Blind Unreliable Robot

Jeremy S. Lewis, Daniel A. Feshbach, and Jason M. O'Kane

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , 2018



Iterator-Based Optimization of Imperfectly-Nested Loops

Daniel Feshbach, Mary Glaser, Michelle Strout, and David G. Wonnacott

IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW) , 2018

Teaching

FIRST Robotics Competition Team 9416

Programming and Design Mentor

William W. Bodine High School for International Affairs

2023-2025

Theory of Computation (Graduate)

Teaching Assistant

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science

Fall 2022

Theory of Computation (Graduate)

Teaching Assistant

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science

Fall 2022

Intro to Scientific Computing

Tutor

University of Pennsylvania, Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Fall 2021

Intro and Intermediate CS Courses

Tutor and Lab Assistant

Haverford College, Department of Computer Science

2019-2020

Theory of Computation (Undergraduate)

Teaching Assistant

Haverford College, Department of Computer Science

Fall 2018

Data Structures

Teaching Assistant

Haverford College, Department of Computer Science

Spring 2018

Intro to Computer Science

Teaching Assistant

Haverford College, Department of Computer Science

Fall 2017