Leading a research study on using wait-mounted vibrotactile haptics to give users an intuitive spatial understanding of their surroundings.

300+ hours: Aug 2025 - Aug 2026 

An incredibly impactful experience. Planning and leading a 5 day trip for 12 students to explore the world outside the Midwest through relationships and curiosity.

80 hrs: Nov 2025 - Apr 2026

Exploring tech ethics and policy via a policy brief: "AI Recommendations are Undermining Human's Autonomy". Done in an effort to build skills the ensure I know how to apply my future work to the real world.

20 hrs: Nov 2025 - Dec 2025

Ten-week research internship creating human subjects experiment to test how to increase situational awareness and decrease cognitive load of remote operators for companies like Waymo, Zoox, and Cruise.
Worked with Johann Chen and Madeliene Korver.

~200 hrs: May 2025 - Aug 2025

Served as co-lead for the virtual orientation for the 32 incoming 2029 cohort of SELF Fellows. Organized three online sessions with engaging activites, with the goal of introducing the new fellows to one another, and informing them about what the SELF program is.
Worked with Elizabeth Aberle, Santiago De la Fuente, Josselyn Bui, Lauren Koskey, and Nischay Rawal.

~60 hrs: May 2025 - Aug 2025

Unity, Python, and YOLO to create desktop side object detection on Quest 3. Part of SPIRE-EIT REU, working with Alexa Hatcher

~20 hrs: Jun 2025

Teaching assistant for Jr/Sr level course. Leading lectures on ROS 2 and OpenCV. Handling $10,000 budget for robots.

~100 hrs: Dec 2024 - May 2025

Worked with Sterling Smith in our first ever Hackathon! Although we did not finish our project, we still learned a lot of lessons while building it.

Apr 2025

Won first place in the SELF x BLP Case Comp. This competition was focused on crisis management, and challenged our abilities to identify root causes and communicate the why.

Feb - Mar 2025

Learning Altium Designer to create multiple testing PCBs, collaborating with electrical team lead. Also debugging current PCB designs using breadboard test setups.

Sep - Dec 2024

As part of an honors source "The Creative Mindset", I created a zine to explore my interests in sensory substitution & augmentation

Dec 2024

Working with team to go from $10 to $144 in just 3 hours. We did this by organizing a one mile, Halloween themed fun run with a $3 entry fee.

Oct 2024

A PCB adapter which plugs into an existing drone controller and gives gyro functionality, making the drone more natural and intuitive to control. Created as a functional prototype for a Warner Bros licensed project.

Jun - Jul 2024

This solar charger was designed to be extremely lightweight, while still maintaining the efficiency needed to charge something like a small UAV. During this project I designed a 4-layer PCB and integrated an STM8 microcontroller alongside it.

Jul 2023 - May 2024

Using Blender's API, I created a tool which automatically uses your imported mesh and slices it horizontally based on user parameters. I used this tool to create a 3D topographical laser cut map.

Jun 2023

Created a static scene in blender, modeling, texturing, and lighting the scene. Entered into the Dynamic Machines challenges hosted by @pwnisher

Aug - Jun 2023

This moon lamp houses an Arduino Uno and a series of LED strips controlled by MOSFETs to sync the phase of the lamp with the phase of the moon.

Jan - Apr 2022

My car key fob was big and bulky and ugly, so I decided to make a new one, but fun! I decided to make the new casing look like a retro brick phone. It has integrated buttons so the Fob keeps all of its functionality!

Jul - Aug 2024