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.
Autonomous Systems / Hackathon, 2026
Built an autonomous UUV in a weekend at the Albacore defense-tech hackathon: ballast depth control, mechanical integration, and an acoustic-plus-vision autonomy stack.
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
Self-designed multitool with ruler, screwdriver, wrench, and bottle opener functions, fully toleranced to ASME GD&T and machined 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.
Coursework & team research
Rocket combustion chamber CFD, Kármán vortex shedding, Turing patterns from a hand-derived ADI solver, recumbent-bike aerodynamics, and a working maglev train, with full reports and slides.