Hello, I'm Nick.

I'm an undergraduate student at North Carolina State University, studying Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. My interests include Robotics, Planning, and Algorithms.

In my free time I like to cook, build scale models, go to the gym, and read. I play bass guitar and love listening to a wide variety of music. I also play a lot of games. Some of my favorites include Elden Ring, Signalis, and Minecraft.


> Notes_

My Jounrey to Graduate School

> Research_

I work in the HIER Lab on learning-based approaches to legged robot locomotion. My current focus is translating human motion capture data to quadrupedal robots using deep learning-based motion retargeting.

My broader interests are in the algorithmic foundations of robot navigation, agile locomotion, and motion planning. I want to build robots that can safely assist people with tasks that are dangerous, physically demanding, or otherwise out of reach.

Teleoperation of Quadruped Robots via Learning-Based Gait Classification of Human Locomotion Data
Nicholas Sutton, Jaemin Lee · Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2026
Gait Mode Classification using a Temporal Convolutional Neural Network
Nicholas Sutton, Jaemin Lee, Peng Gao · Undergraduate Thesis, 2026

> Software_

Seally Python · NumPy · Pygame

A lightweight Python library for motion planning algorithms.

Fetch-MC Rust · Tokio · Clap

Terminal-based Minecraft mod management utility for updating mods, resource packs, and shaders from Modrinth.

GaitCNN Python · PyTorch · Scikit-Learn · NumPy

Python implementation of a CNN and TCN for human gait classification.

Munchie Bot Python · Playwright · Discord.py · Docker

Discord bot and web scraper that automatically notifies your server when a new free game is available on the Epic Games Store.