Mechanical Engineering @ Boston University
Passionate about building elegant solutions to widespread problems, and mechanical engineering provides a broad toolkit to do so. I'm a student based in the SF Bay Area, attending university in Boston, and I'm interested in robotics, space, and design.
In my free time, I play competitive tennis, read, and explore the city with friends.
A machined aluminum flashlight designed from scratch as a solo project. Features one handed brightness control via a magnetic slider that communicates through the waterproof body, tactile ball detents, knurled touch points, and a custom PCB designed in Fusion.
Developed a custom radiator test bench to measure heat rejection capacity, enabling a 30% reduction in radiator size. Integrated an electric water pump to eliminate coolant flow issues at idle.
Co-authoring a paper on a learned routing framework for autonomous navigation that dynamically offloads complex scenes to a cloud model while keeping routine navigation on a fast local model, balancing accuracy against inference cost in real time.
A dual function ball machine that collects tennis balls from the court and feeds them for practice, combining two separate commercial products into one unit at a quarter of the cost.
An automated window that monitors temperature and air quality on both sides and opens or closes itself to ventilate with outdoor air instead of running AC.
A directional infrared communication system with a rotating transmitter and stationary receiver, designed for environments where RF signals are undesirable. Constrained to 15mW transmit power, the system achieved 100% message accuracy at 9 meters, 6x the 1.5 meter design requirement.
A two-stage soil erosion detection system combining drone-based aerial imaging with ground rover verification. Led a team of six across ML, hardware, and software. Reached California state finals in Samsung's competition (top 1% of 30,000 teams), winning a $5,000 grant.
Full-size air hockey table built from scratch with a shop vac plenum chamber and custom playing surface. My first real build, completed in about two months using almost entirely salvaged materials.