Studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh for the fall semester.
Rising third-year at Duke studying CS and Physics, with concentrations in AI/ML and astrophysics and a math minor. I'm interested in technology that builds — or builds on — sharper models of the world, and in proliferating it thoughtfully. Previously at TJHSST. Always open to talk; email's the best way to reach me.
# current_log
T-3 mo
T+0 mo
GNC engineering at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA on the Starshield program. Designing and implementing algorithms, simulations, tools, and ops dashboards for guidance, navigation, and control of the constellation in support of national security.
T+11 mo
Lead software engineer at Liberata, building since summer 2025. An open-source academic publishing platform with peer-review and replication incentives — data infrastructure, file processing, integration of novel scholarly metrics.
# research_log
2022–24
Independent astrophysics research at UMD in collaboration with NASA, advised by Tad Komacek. Incorporated stellar gravity darkening into Navier-Stokes general circulation models — the most sophisticated atmospheric model of exoplanets at time of completion. Months-long simulations on UMD's Zaratan cluster. Presented at ISEF 2023 in Dallas.
2022–23
Research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Modeled the solar magnetic field for space weather prediction and mitigation. Examined Faraday Rotation near the Sun using Parker Solar Probe ephemeris to identify optimal observation windows in support of a successful Very Large Array proposal. Presented at ISDC 2025 in Washington, D.C.
# industry_log
summer 2025
Policy research at the GWU Space Policy Institute. Wrote a technical report on space governance grounded in Svalbard and Tangier precedent. Presented at the 2025 ISU/GWU Expert Workshop supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
spring 2025
Data engineer at Turbo AI. Helped scale an edtech AI startup from 1.5M to 3M users and past $3M ARR. PostHog instrumentation, retention and churn modeling, pricing and UI iteration.
# recognition
2025
1st place at the 8VC × Meta × Duke Hackathon ($2,000). Built AutoResQ, a service that monitors traffic-camera feeds, detects accidents with AI, and pushes real-time video and alerts.
2024
1st nationwide in Astronomy at the Science Olympiad National Tournament; 2nd nationwide in Remote Sensing the year prior.
2024
National Merit Scholar — one of ~2,500 nationwide.
2023
ISEF Finalist in Dallas, after Grand Prize at the Fairfax County Regional Science Fair with my UMD/NASA exoplanet atmosphere research.
2023
WTOP "Top Kid" for founding Space Summit DC, a space conference for local high school students.
# teaching
spring 2026
Help Room TA for Math 230 — Probability.
fall 2025
Help Room TA for Math 218D — Matrices & Vectors, Duke's linear algebra course for engineers.