Making ideas hold up under load.

I'm a junior at Boston University, graduating in May 2028 with a 3.4 cumulative GPA. My coursework has moved from foundational mechanics and materials into manufacturing processes and robotics, with electromechanical design next.

This spring I was a research intern at the University of Sydney, where I worked through the atom probe tomography workflow and built IonTrace, a tool for exploring APT datasets. The summer before, I was a science intern at Tetra Tech in Sacramento, leading environmental-release-to-construction safety briefings for crews of 10 to 30 and performing compliance inspections on active construction sites.

Outside of coursework, I like making things by hand — most recently a cigar box guitar built from scratch: I cut and shaped the neck and headstock myself, calculated the fret spacing and cut the slots on a table saw, and wired in a piezo pickup, tuning the four strings to GDGB for a clean, warm sound. Shaping the neck freehand was the hardest part — I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so getting it exactly right took more patience than anything else in the build. It hangs on my bedroom wall now.