CV

Education

• Ph.D in Computational Mechanics, Carnegie Mellon University, Est. April 2029
• M.S. in Computational Mechanics, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2025
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, June 2024

Research Experience

Graduate Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

• August 2024 – Present
• Constrained optimization machine learning methods for physics and engineering problems

Research Associate, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, MD

• Summer 2026
• Advisors: Jarek Knap and Kevin LoGrande
• Advancing Diffusion Maps Surrogates with Constrained Optimization

Academic Part Time Employee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

• October 2023 – August 2024
• Primary Lab: Additive Manufacturing Center (AMC)
• Secondary Lab: Two-Phase Thermal Technology Laboratory
• Additively manufactured heat pipe design
• Supervised testing of additively manufactured thermal control systems
• Methods led to 100x cost reduction and 50% performance improvement over state-of-the-art
• Two NASA New Technology Reports and one US Patent submitted

Year Round Intern, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

• May 2023 – September 2023

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

• June 2022 – June 2024
• Research Advisor: Vinamra Agrawal, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Implementation of a model for ductile fracture in functionally graded additively manufactured metals

Awards

• Grand Prize: Sustainable Impact Award, Gresham Smith Innovation Hackathon — March 2026
• Graduate Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering — May 2024

Research Grants

• ACCESS – EXPLORE, National Science Foundation — September 2024 – Present