Projects
Selected engineering and academic projects
Low-Power Mesh Signal Relay
Battery-powered relay for field sensor networks
Product Engineering & IoT · Academic
Context (The Why)
Field sensor deployments often sit outside Wi-Fi and cellular range, and running mains power to every node isn't practical.
Solution (The What)
A battery-powered relay node that forwards sensor readings over a low-power mesh, extending network range without a fixed power source.
Implementation (The How)
Built around a low-power microcontroller with a duty-cycled radio stack, sleeping between transmission windows to stretch battery life across a multi-month deployment.
Role
Embedded Systems Engineer
Duration
Spring 2025
Integrated Ring Resonator
Silicon photonics filter design and characterization
Microelectronics & Photonics · Academic
Context (The Why)
Ring resonators are a building block for on-chip optical filtering, and hands-on fabrication is the best way to understand where theory and cleanroom reality diverge.
Solution (The What)
Designed and fabricated a silicon-on-insulator ring resonator, then characterized its spectral response against the design target.
Implementation (The How)
Executed the full cleanroom cycle — lithography, etching, and metrology — and extracted the resonator's Q-factor from measured transmission spectra.
Role
Fabrication Engineer
Duration
Spring 2025
Autonomous Terrain Rover
Vision-based navigation on uneven ground
Robotics & AI · Academic
Context (The Why)
Most student robotics platforms assume flat, predictable terrain — this project explored what breaks when that assumption doesn't hold.
Solution (The What)
A small ground rover that plans a path across uneven terrain using onboard vision, replanning when it detects an obstacle.
Implementation (The How)
Combined a vision-based obstacle detector with a local trajectory planner, tuned through iterative testing on a mixed-terrain test course.
Role
Robotics Engineer
Duration
Spring 2025
Modular Hand-Tool System
Interchangeable, 3D-printed tool heads
Industrial Design & Mechanical · Academic
Context (The Why)
A single-purpose tool means buying and storing a separate handle for every task — a shared, swappable interface removes that redundancy.
Solution (The What)
A hand-tool handle with a quick-release interface, paired with a small set of interchangeable, 3D-printed tool heads.
Implementation (The How)
Modeled the assembly and tolerances in CAD, then iterated the release mechanism through several printed prototypes to get a snug, tool-free fit.
Role
Mechanical Designer
Duration
Spring 2023