Overview

Yale Exploration Rover aims to build a competition-ready autonomous rover complete with a science mission payload to compete in the University Rover Challange 2025. This semester I have taken on the responsibility of the Drives Subteam Lead, where I'll lead a group of ~6 other engineering students in the development of the rocker-bogie suspension, propulsion system and chassis for Yale's competition rover! 

Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS) are increasingly essential in fields like agriculture, disaster response, and climate research. During the Summer of 2024, I investigated and developed an autonomous, daytime celestial navigation solution that avoids the pitfalls of other modern solutions like GPS or feature based solutions.

Project Liquid is Yale's Liquid Rocketry team, in which I've worked for both the Propulsion and Structures subteams. The club aims to produce a regenerative and film-cooled engine using self-pressurizing ethane and nitrous oxide to power the flight of a rocket. I've contributed to engineering the Augmented Spark Ignitor for the engine as well as characterizing the stress load in the rocket.

In Fall 2023, I, with two other undergraduates, developed a 1U CubeSat equipped with a deployable parachute and heatshield, designed to enable low-cost, repeatable testing of heatshield performance for the class MENG 185: Mechanical Design. This project aims to open up exciting possibilities for advancing space re-entry technology through affordable, hands-on experimentation. 

Active Galactic Nuclei, or AGN, are among the most massive and energetic objects in the universe and thus are key in understanding galactic morphology. In the Summer of 2023, I wrote a program to estimate the masses for ~5,000 AGN using a process known as emission line spectroscopy. 

Tuning drums can be time-consuming and complex, often requiring careful, iterative adjustment of each lug to avoid warping the head. I designed a tool that streamlines this process by tuning all lugs simultaneously and adapting to drum heads ranging from 8 to 15 inches in diameter. 

In April 2025, I joined Yale’s Faboratory, a research group focused on soft robotics. Under PhD candidate Caitlin Le, I began investigating how the mechanical properties of soft materials affect the burrowing forces experienced by soft-bodied robots moving through granular media like sand and soil. 

This summer, I'm interning as an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at GlobalFoundries, where I'm working to integrate a dual-redundant Electrochemical Hydrogen Purifier (EHP) in an effort to save the company nearly $3 million per year and increase company resilience against rising deuterium prices.