ABOUT ME
I reason from physics and cost, then validate the design against what I measure. I study mechanical engineering and computer science at Duke, and I build physical systems end to end: structures, enclosures, power, and the firmware that runs them. I also operate what I build, with 30+ flight tests on lab hexacopters and 26 FPV drones built and tuned. This portfolio collects six projects. Five carried from CAD to prototype to test and were revised against measured data; the solar sail frame is analyzed, specified, and now being built, with its tests planned once it is.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering · A.B. Computer Science · Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering · Expected May 2028 · GPA 3.56
EXPERIENCE
Most of my paid engineering has been test and validation. I integrated and checked out 15 fixed-wing UAVs and root-caused 30+ Li-ion test failures into QA fixes at Jordan Int'l Air Cargo & Defense, wrote the modal-correlation and 8-cycle thermal-vacuum plans for the solar sail, ran 30+ test flights on three Aurelia X-600 hexacopters at Duke's Cyber-Physical Systems Lab and recalibrated their IMU and motion capture from flight logs in QGroundControl, and built and tuned 26 FPV drones. That work taught me what breaks and why: which weak spot-weld raises a battery pack's resistance, which wall sinks in the mold, which cached read goes stale under DMA.
Independent Project, Supersonic Flow Visualization (Sep 2026 – Present): researching computational models of supersonic flow with Duke professor Bavand Keshavarz, ahead of building a schlieren rig to image a supersonic nozzle jet. Repass-Rodgers Scholar, Duke Marine Lab (Dec 2025 – Present): one of four selected for a $5,500 marine-conservation tech grant. I'm building a $40 underwater sensor for reef temperature, salinity, and light, and a vision-guided swarm of autonomous boats that checks what satellite imagery flags in the water.
INVENTORY · TECHNICAL SKILLS