Hey there, and thanks for stopping by my website! I'm a systems engineer at Sandia National Laboratories (San
Francisco Bay Area) working in nuclear deterrence R&D and
supporting development of the W87-1 nuclear
warhead.
I earned my master's degree in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from Cornell University at the age of 20.
I began college when I was 14 years
old,
starting my academic career at California State University -
Los Angeles. Soon after, I received my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, graduating summa cum
laude with a near-perfect 3.99 GPA. I was named an Edison
Scholar by the Honors College in 2014 and was honored by the Barry Goldwater
Scholarship Foundation in 2016. I served as president of the
Early Entrance Program Club, campus chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
and volunteered as a student staff member at the Pat
Brown Institute for Public
Affairs. I am a proud member of the honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi.
At Cal State LA, I conducted chemistry research with Prof. Frank Gomez in his Microfluidics and Point-of-Care Diagnostics Lab
where I worked on low-cost, paper-based
analytical devices and assays. I was also part of a biomedical engineering effort led by Prof.
Deborah Won to study how the "gamification" of realtime biosignals can help motivate spinal cord
injury patients that lead largely sedentary lifestyles to exercise. For my senior capstone project, I worked
with Northrop Grumman engineers
and Prof. Ni Li to study articulating solar sails as a novel form of CubeSat attitude control. I have
published academic papers in all three aforementioned areas. Upon graduation, I was selected by engineering
faculty to deliver a speech at the university's annual honors
convocation and was the class speaker for the Honors College.
I began graduate study at Cornell University becoming one of the youngest graduate
students at the college. I conducted my graduate
thesis work with Prof. Amit Lal and DARPA on a
surface acoustic wave MEMS gyroscope for missile guidance systems. I was a researcher at
the Collective Embodied Intelligence
Laboratory where I conducted research in bio-inspired swarm robotics with Prof. Kirstin
Petersen. I was also a researcher at Cornell's
Space
Systems Design Studio (SSDS) under Prof. Mason Peck, the former
NASA Chief Technologist, where I developed the software
and electrical subsystems for the Spacecraft Flight
Simulator and
Attitude
Testbed.
In addition to taking a gap year during the pandemic, I started a nonprofit to help close the digital
divide.