FRC Team 5419 - Lead Technical Mentor
FRC got me interested in engineering when I was in high school. Now I’ve finally returned to mentor. I like to inspire my students to aim high, build wacky machines, and be good members of society.
Portfolio
Key skills: mechanism design, rapid prototyping, microcontroller integration
My undergraduate focus was on machine design and classical control. Then I took a gap year and worked at SpaceX and Apple, both of which gave me context in industry & manufacturing. In graduate school, I use my mechatronics knowledge as a tool for innovating in smarter, more efficient interaction with terrain. The skills I developed more recently are systems level: characterizing performance, designing experiments, and motivating work with first order principles.
Rover Builds
These are some of the small rovers test platforms I’ve built for my graduate research… click here for some images. 
MIT - Lathe
This lathe build was from the machine design class I took in undergrad. I was the FEA lead of my group.
NASA JPL - Starshade
During an undergraduate internship, I made tons of engineering models of Starshade.
