About Me

I'm a Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering double major at UC Irvine, with a minor in Information and Computer Science, graduating in June 2027. I'm looking for an aerospace role in analysis or systems engineering, where I model, simulate and verify how a vehicle and its subsystems perform and fit together, on aircraft, spacecraft or their propulsion and flight systems.

From June to September 2026 I was an Aeronautical Engineer Intern at Soaring Aerospace, a Caltech-affiliated UAV startup in Orange, CA, where most of my work was propulsion selection and thrust testing for two multirotors (50 lb lift and 25 lb lift) and a third aircraft in preliminary design. My motor, propeller and ESC selection cut propulsion cost on the 50 lb lift UAV by about 88 % while it met its required performance targets. I also ran a cooling-fan trade study on two 3D-printed fan concepts (about 20 % lower steady-state motor temperature at 50 % throttle), set up a two-pass FEA method to find failure points in a new airframe's preliminary structure, and redesigned a folding-arm joint. For a yaw-instability root cause analysis (RCA), I wrote the flight-log analysis scripts that surfaced a command-scaling mismatch between flight-controller output and ESC input, and the Experience tiles below cover the rest.

On Shear Force, a 30 lb combat robot, I went from chassis support to mechanical systems engineer to team lead: I took over the electrical system, ran the root cause analysis on an ESC fire, built SF_Telem (the telemetry app that made that analysis possible) and led a team of three at Open Sauce 2026.

I like multidisciplinary problems. I write the software and simulations I need to understand, visualize and optimize a physical design, from first-principles derivations to CFD, then check them against CAD, hands-on manufacturing and testing. Right now two personal projects are in their preliminary design phase: Pulsar, a 5-inch FPV drone, and Eos, a high-power rocket.