Born and raised in South Los Angeles, California, I had always been interested in how the world around us worked. In particular, as far back as I can remember, I had always liked taking things apart, and from that experience, learning more about the functionality of the objects being dissected. Passionate about learning more about the world and how it worked, I began my college career studying Physics and Mechanical Engineering. I studied physics because I was curious to learn the details to how the world around us operated. I was awed by how these simple and elegant mathematical formulations governed everything around us. However, I would quickly find out that although the subject matter was fascinating, ultimately what drove me was the desire to design and build cool stuff. This resulted in more of a concentration towards my studies in Mechanical Engineering. In particular, I have focused my education around mechanical design and controls, leading me to design and build some pretty cool stuff. I invite you to please take a look around my website, where I have decided to showcase some of the projects that I have worked on in my undergraduate and graduate studies.
During my three summers at Radiabeam Technologies between 2015 and 2017, I was tasked to design a multitude of parts for a wide variety of particle accelerator applications. The parts designed needed to be fabricated to a high degree of accuracy. As such, I got very familiar with standard practices in GD&T. Additionally, I was tasked with assembling and testing some of the manufactured parts in clean room environments for quality control, and developed documentation for such tests.
Worked under Professors B. Reeja Jayan and O. Burak Ozdoganlar as a Course Assistant for Mechanical Systems Experimentation, a senior level lab based course. Assisted students to help them understand course topics and physical experimentation procedures, as well as graded assignments.
Worked under Professors Kitty Kumar as a Course Grader for Soft Robots: Mechanics, Design and Modeling. Graded a variety of assignments ranging from theoretical work to ANSYS simulations.