I am mechanical engineering sophmore at Duke with a passion for designing innovative solutions that combine creativity, analytical thinking, and hands on engineering. I enjoy taking ideas from concept to prototype, using engineering principles, CAD design, programming, and testing to solve real world problems. My interests span rocketry, robotics, smart wearable technology and product development where I strive to create devices that are both functional and impactful.
This portfolio showcases a selection of projects that demonstrate my technical skills, problem solving approach, and commitment to continuous learning. Each project reflects my experience in design, manufacturing, analysis, and iterative improvement while highlighting my ability to work through complex engineering challenges. As I continue to grow as an engineer, I hope to contribute to projects that improve people's lives through thoughtful and innovative design.
From a young age, I spent time working at my dad’s phone repair shop, surrounded by devices being opened, diagnosed, repaired, and put back together. Seeing the electronics inside the technology I used every day gave me an early curiosity for how things worked, and the confidence to learn by getting hands-on.
That curiosity became a real passion during high school, when I founded my school’s rocketry club. It was my first experience taking an engineering idea all the way into the real world: designing, building, testing, failing, iterating, and eventually watching something we built leave the launch rail.
Since then, I’ve kept chasing that same feeling through mechanical design, robotics, rocketry, and products of my own. I’m most excited by projects where mechanical systems, electronics, and software come together—and where an idea can become a working prototype you can actually hold, test, and improve.
This is a moment I will never forget: my first successful launch.
A few of the places that shaped how I build, experiment, and think.
My first exposure to hands-on technology. Watching phones and electronics get opened, diagnosed, repaired, and rebuilt sparked my curiosity about how the devices around me actually worked.
Operated drones and vision sensors to collect real-world data supporting the development of an AI perception system.
Founded my high school rocketry club and got my first real taste of engineering as an iterative process: designing, building, testing, failing, and eventually launching what we built.
Developed a MATLAB program to extract implosion velocity for inertial-confinement-fusion research, connecting computation with a real experimental physics problem.
Joined the recovery team and began designing, analyzing, machining, and testing flight hardware; noteably the CO₂-driven blast disk separation system.
Promoted to lead the recovery subteam responsible for the design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, and integration of rocket recovery systems.
Working on computational biology and AI research, including DeepSence-related work, reproducibility of senescent-cell identification, and benchmarking LLM prompting strategies for data-science code generation.
Selected work across product development, mechanical design, and robotics — from embedded sensing hardware to flight-tested aerospace components and autonomous systems.
A compact velocity-based training device that measures barbell motion and delivers real-time rep feedback through embedded sensing and a companion app.
A rocket separation pressure interface designed, analyzed, machined, and successfully flight tested for Duke AERO's Devil's Advocate at IREC 2026.
An autonomous rover platform integrating mechanical design, sensing, ROS-based control, navigation, and simulation for lunar-style terrain.
A proof-of-concept wearable that detects slouching with an IMU and selectively tensions shoulder straps using electrically actuated nitinol.