01 / Engineering record
Experience & selected work
From simulation to hardware, research to flight test.
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force flight test
Description pending public release review.
Jan 2025 – PresentGeorgia Tech ARE Lab
Counter-UAS aerial capture
Led a counter-UAS aerial capture vehicle from simulation through developmental flight test.
Aug 2024 – Dec 2025MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Small-spacecraft launch feasibility
Feasibility study for a launch system accelerating small spacecraft from rest to 300 m/s.
Summer 2024NASA JPL
Adaptive mirror characterization
Assembled and tested an adaptive mirror assembly for space telescopes.
Jan 2023 – Jun 2024NASA JPL
LORNA Mars scout drone
Led mechanical design of LORNA, a long-range autonomous Mars scouting drone.
Jan 2023 – Jun 2024National Reconnaissance Office
Satellite and ground-station interfaces
Designed and tested satellite/ground-station network architecture through ICDs.
Summer 2022Meta
Native iOS screen sharing
Integrated the Rooms app engine with Apple's SDK for native screen sharing.
Summer 2021NASA JPL
Lunar regolith thermal modeling
Thermal FEA of cryogenic instruments to measure lunar regolith conductivity.
Summer 2020