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About

I'm an Electrical & Computer Engineering student at Northeastern building autonomous robots — ROS2, embedded AI, CAD and fabrication.

I completed my first year abroad at Northeastern University London through theLondon Scholars Program, and I'm on track for a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in May 2029. Home is Seattle.

Most of my work sits where software meets something physical. Right now that's thePhysical AI team at Janicki, where I've been retrofitting a legacy industrial arm into an autonomous, vision-guided system you can talk to in plain English. Before that it was adrone I designed and built across three iterations to film ultimate frisbee, which is still the project that taught me the most.

What I'm interested in

Power systems and sustainable energy.The surge in large data centers and AI server demand is turning electrical capacity into the binding constraint on what the industry can actually build. That's an unusually concrete, unusually urgent engineering problem, and it's the direction I want my ECE degree pointed.

Autonomous robots and physical AI.The gap between a model that works in simulation and a machine that's trustworthy on a factory floor is where the real engineering lives — calibration, latency, sensor fusion, and knowing which parts of a system are allowed to be probabilistic.

Timeline

  1. 2026

    Physical AI Team Intern at Janicki — autonomous manipulation on a KUKA arm

  2. 2025 — 2026

    Co-founded the Husky Robotics Society at NU London; grew it to 40+ members

  3. 2025

    Started at Northeastern; Electrical Engineering Intern at Janicki

  4. 2024 — 2026

    Built three iterations of a custom FPV camera drone

  5. 2024

    Lead researcher on unpublished Leibniz manuscripts

  6. 2021 — 2025

    Co-led Lakeside Robotics from $200 to $10,000 and back-to-back state championships

Toolbox

CAD & Fabrication

  • NX
  • SolidWorks
  • Onshape
  • Fusion 360
  • AutoCAD
  • 3D printing
  • Soldering
  • Wiring
  • Circuit design

Robotics

  • ROS2 (Humble/Jazzy)
  • Sensor fusion
  • LIDAR & depth vision
  • Motion planning
  • Jetson & embedded systems
  • 6-axis arms

Software & AI

  • Python
  • C++
  • Java
  • Rust
  • JavaScript/React
  • Local LLM deployment
  • Vision & speech models
  • Agentic systems
  • Computer vision