Won Best Build & Test honors against 27 teams at the DOE Marine Energy Collegiate Competition — a judgment of prototype design and testing rigor.
Led 20 undergraduate and graduate researchers across two DOE competitions; set MECC technical direction and drove the industry-mentor strategy.
Designed the modular finned channel for the conductive-gap membrane-distillation module; built and led testing of the lab-scale prototype.
Engineered a desalination platform modeled at 28,600 L/day — freshwater for 1,430 people — using the ocean thermocline as its primary energy source and a solar-thermal boost in the full-scale design.
Cut projected levelized water cost 51% against the Gizo, Solomon Islands baseline by eliminating grid and fuel dependence.
Secured $21,000 in staged competition funding; built and managed the budget before delegating ownership.
Directed three K-12 outreach events reaching 226 students; co-authored and presented at NCUR 2026.
Student Employee
Purdue ME Project Machine Shop · Aug 2024 – Present
Trained ME students on manual mill, lathe, and bandsaw; guided 400+ students per semester through laser cutting, welding, and machining.
Mentored design-for-manufacturing on robotic grippers, machinist clamps, and sheet-metal toolboxes using DFM, DFA, and GD&T; created a design-screening process to flag builds exceeding shop capability.
Caught and corrected 3–4 unsafe tool-mounting and tool-selection errors before operation across three semesters.
Data Analysis Team Lead — The Data Mine
Purdue × HUMN Capital · Aug 2024 – Dec 2024
Led a 5-person analytics team partnered with startup HUMN Capital; shipped a fundraising-ready MVP in one 16-week semester.
Architected a multi-agent AI pipeline over 7 hours of meeting data, automating a classification workflow; trained a 4-class NLP classifier to 80% accuracy.
Delivered an interactive Tableau dashboard surfacing 12+ metrics — “exceeds expectations” program evaluation.
Helped run a 100-student thermodynamics course: weekly grading with detailed feedback on common errors, plus weekly office hours.
Milestones — Introduction to Electronics
Purdue University · Mar 2024
Breadboarded a night-light prototype (LDRs, LEDs, capacitors); drew schematics and board layouts in EAGLE; soldered surface-mount and through-hole, troubleshooting faulty joints.
Student Consultant — Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara House
Purdue Honors College · Aug 2024 – Dec 2024
Worked with the curator to grow revenue and impact through the visitor experience; built a framework for diversified tours and local-organization collaborations.
Projects
Thermal Simulations — Microsystems Packaging
Purdue University · Jan 2025 – May 2026
FEA of a solder microbump under −55→125 °C cycling in ANSYS: 100 MPa peak von Mises, per-cycle plastic strain, and a 5→1 µm mesh study confirming the concentration was physical.
Physics-based review of InFO advanced packaging across 40+ papers, benchmarking θja and CTE-mismatch strain against flip-chip package-on-package.
Extracted interconnect R/L/C, simulated crosstalk and eye diagrams in ANSYS Electronics, and analyzed chip-level cooling from contact resistance to immersion boiling and heat pipes.
Simulation of Electrical Machines
KTH, Stockholm · Jan 2025 – June 2025
Reverse-engineered an IPMSM in FEMM — 500 automated magnetostatic solves per run via a MATLAB–Lua pipeline on a 10M+ element mesh.
Characterized it end-to-end: 2.36 Ω phase resistance, 289 V RMS BEMF at 2.83% THD, and a 1.62 saliency ratio; FEA torque agreed with the analytical dq model within 4.6% at MTPA.
Designed a polyphase induction motor from scratch — matched nominal torque to the design target (9.55 Nm, error below 0.005%) at the 85% efficiency target.
Inconel Jewelry, Designed for SLM — Additive Manufacturing
KTH, Stockholm · Jan 2025 – June 2025
Led a 3-person team designing Inconel 718 jewelry for SLM; cut slicer support volume 90% through build orientation and overhang-angle DFM across 7 design iterations.
Modular Workstation for Frontline Engineers
Sophomore Design, Purdue · Aug 2023 – Dec 2023
Scoped from 40 intern interviews; designed a folding workstation hitting 10 kg capacity at 2 kg weight (5:1) with sub-4-second one-handed deployment, over 4 design generations.
3-D Printed Drone — ASME Small Projects
Purdue University · Sept 2023 – Nov 2023
Designed the frame in Fusion 360 under a $150 budget, using FEA to cut mass at verified factor of safety; sized propulsion for 10 min full-throttle flight. 3rd of 10 in the ASME competition.
