I'm a third-year PhD student in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland being advised by Dr. Derek Paley.

I work on DARPA's most recent grand challenge, the DARPA Triage Challenge, whose goal is to spur the technological development of robotic platforms that can be used for assessing people's injuries after mass-casualty events, like traffic accidents and building collapses.

I co-lead the development and management of an autonomy stack built for the Boston Dynamics Spot for use in the DARPA Triage Challenge.

Most of the software and hardware we develop is private, since this is a competition. But you can contact me for more information!

Email: zbortoff@umd.edu