Propulsion · Manufacturing · Design
Mechanical engineering student at Penn (BSE + MSE) working across rocket propulsion, turbomachinery, and precision manufacturing. Co-founder of Project Wavefront, a nonprofit developing a rotating detonation rocket engine now approaching hot fire.
Propulsion / Research · 2025 — Present
Co-founded Project Wavefront, a 501(c)(3) building a 2 kN methane/oxygen RDRE — now headed to hot fire.
Propulsion / Research · 2024 — Present
Leading combustion dynamics research for a hydrogen-fueled turbofan demonstrator — CFD, FEA, and hardware.
Propulsion / Research · 2023 — 2025
Led design, manufacturing, and testing of the first undergraduate-built axial turbojet at Penn.
May 2024
18-part heat engine machined from aluminum, brass, stainless, and walnut — designed around a GD&T tolerance stackup.
Sept 2024
CNC-machined injection mold for a functional whistle — draft, parting lines, and shrinkage engineered in.
Oct 2024
Aluminum and brass chess set turned on a Haas TL-1 CNC lathe, with a walnut board.
2024
Machined multitool built to ASME GD&T standards on manual mill and lathe.
2024
Designed and manufactured a combined music box and cuckoo-clock mechanism as a machining final project.
2024
CNC-machined display model of the SR-71 Blackbird.
2024
Photoreal cherry render built with surface modeling and KeyShot.