01/Featured work
The systems I'm proudest of — hardware, numerics, machine learning, and product, each with a number to show for it.
02/About
I'm a Computer Engineering student at Virginia Tech (Honors College), concentrating in Controls, Robotics & Autonomy with a Machine Learning focus and a Computer Science minor.
I like building at the seam between hardware and software — an autonomous 3D print farm that calibrates itself with computer vision, a PCA pipeline rewritten in C to run on a microcontroller, an AI notes app on the App Store whose entire job queue lives inside Postgres. Most recently I spent a summer at Micron building a change-point monitoring system that's now deployed globally across their fabs.
Outside of that, VT CRO has been the spine of my time here — I joined as a freshman engineer in 2023 and now run it as President, 140+ engineers across 12 teams. I'm also lead TA for ECE 4534, Virginia Tech's most advanced embedded systems course.
Along the way I've picked up a peer-reviewed publication, pitched research to Nestlé, and taught 350+ students how to code and build robots.
I'm working hard to ensure the machines rise with us, not against us.
Currently: President of VT CRO · lead TA for ECE 4534 · senior year · having fun
Education
Virginia Tech
B.S. Computer Engineering
GPA 3.70Class of May 2027
03/Experience
May 2025 – Aug 2025
Manassas, VA
Sep 2023 – Present
Blacksburg, VA
Aug 2024 – Present
Blacksburg, VA
04/VT CRO
Four years, four roles — from a freshman engineer on a SoutheastCon hardware team to President of what is now the largest active ECE organization at Virginia Tech.
VT CRO is the part of Virginia Tech I've given the most to and gotten the most out of. I joined as a freshman engineer in 2023, built competition hardware, led the electrical and software side of an award-winning autonomous manufacturing cell, and then spent two terms running the organization — first as Vice President of Engineering, now as President.
It's no longer a club that runs beside the curriculum. It's the default destination for ECE majors who want to apply what they learn to real systems, and the work coming out of it now represents the department externally.
$65,000+raised as President, alongside the additional lab space needed to sustain that growth.
Sep 2023 – May 2024
SoutheastCon Hardware Competition
Joined as a freshman engineer on the IEEE SoutheastCon hardware team, building the competition robot end to end — electronics, fabrication, and the debugging that happens the night before it ships.
2nd place — SoutheastCon Hardware Design Competition
Aug 2024 – 2025
WorkCell
Moved onto WorkCell, the organization's autonomous multi-printer 3D manufacturing cell — working across firmware, sensor and actuator control, and the communication layer tying the gantry, printers, and storage together, through the competition season that took it to nationals.
Gold Award + Honda Innovation Award — National Robotics Challenge 2025
2025 – Feb 2026
WorkCell · organization-wide
Took the electrical and software side of WorkCell as its lead after the competition season — owning the closed-loop vision calibration, the print queue, and the integration of firmware, backend, and mechanical systems — and drove the project past competition into a public demo at OpenSauce 2026, with an open-source release of the design in preparation. Stepped up to Vice President of Engineering (Aug 2025) with technical direction across every team.
Demoed at OpenSauce 2026
Feb 2026 – Present
140+ engineers · 12 teams
Runs the whole organization: strategy, technical vision, funding, space, recruitment, and the leadership transitions that keep it alive year over year — including my own handoff out of the VP seat. Raised over $65,000 in this term and took the organization from two lab spaces to four; also manages the GitHub repositories and engineering workflow across all 12 teams.
Helped launch EmbArch, VT CRO's first ECE-only team — an advanced embedded architecture team created with ECE 4534 (Embedded System Design) and Dr. Leyla Nazhandali. It gives students a direct path from a departmental course into a working engineering team, and it's a template other courses could follow.
Innovation, catering, startup, and product-based teams now sit alongside the traditional design teams, so there's a place for engineers whose work doesn't end at a competition scoresheet.
The $65,000+ raised and the expansion from two lab spaces to four weren't ends in themselves — they're what let the organization absorb nearly twice as many engineers without the experience degrading for the students already here.
K-12 outreach grew from 670 students a year to more than 1,600, reaching students well before they choose a major.
Delivered presentations and pitches to distinguished ECE alumni, spoke at department events about the robotics community being built here, and hosted visitors and alumni in the lab spaces.
05/All projects
Autonomous 3D print farm
A fully custom, fully autonomous multi-printer 3D manufacturing workcell — dual printers, plate swapping, storage automation, and a continuous print queue.
Plant your thoughts — AI notes on iOS and the web
A private AI notes app that files entries by meaning — shipping as a native SwiftUI iOS app on the App Store and a Next.js web app on one Supabase backend.
Vision-based autonomous rover, sim-to-real
An autonomous rover that navigates to a target using only an overhead camera — a Double DQN trained in simulation and transferred to physical hardware via a custom computer-vision perception pipeline.
Embedded device authentication, from-scratch numerics in C
A C-native PCA pipeline that fingerprints devices from frequency-sweep data and runs standalone on Arduino Q — including a custom Jacobi eigensolver.
Milk adulteration detection under UV microscopy
A low-cost device that quantitatively measures urea adulteration in milk — UV microscopy plus OpenCV image processing, down to a 0.018% average error rate.
Solar-powered fire-detection system
A solar-powered wireless sensor node for early fire monitoring — power electronics, embedded systems, and IoT in one build. Best in Course.
Vital health checkups for rural India
A real-time vitals-monitoring cubicle built to bring accessible health checkups to rural India. CodeHack winner.
06/Research
Peer-reviewed publication
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT)
Volume 9, Issue 8 · Published September 13, 2024 · IJISRT24AUG1182
A novel UV-microscopic-imaging method for quantitative detection of urea adulteration in milk — the research behind MADS.
Industry collaboration
Moga, India · January 6, 2023
Pitched the urea-detection system with a live demonstration to Nestlé QA leadership, including the South Asia Region-Head of Quality Assurance. Nestlé cited its cost-effectiveness, quantitative detection, and sustainability, issued a commendation letter from Corporate Affairs, and requested follow-on research on classifying and counting sugar crystals in condensed milk.
Independent research
From-scratch PCA in C · custom Jacobi eigensolver · Arduino Q
A C-native principal-component-analysis pipeline that fingerprints devices from frequency-sweep data and runs standalone on embedded hardware — no tethered PC, and 4–5× faster than the original Python flow.
07/Leadership
Founder & Teacher
350+students taught across 10+ courses
Designed and taught certified workshops on coding, robotics, and debate, with partnerships including FuturoKnowledge and the Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust — all money raised donated to give underprivileged students access to technology.
coursesbyyou.comFounder
15lives saved via plasma aid
Built a plasma-donation platform during COVID-19 — a live database of 175+ recipients and 25+ donors, run with a team of 14 volunteers.
Founder
1,500+users reached
A COVID-19 resource platform with an interactive resource-finder map and live database, run with a team of 11 volunteers.
House Captain (2021 & 2022)
9-yeardrought ended
Led 120 students to win the Annual House Cup — ending a 9-year drought.
08/Recognition
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Gold Award — National Robotics Challenge 2025
Workcell category · WorkCell
Honda Innovation Award in Manufacturing
National Robotics Challenge 2025 · WorkCell
Exhibited at OpenSauce 2026
WorkCell — public exhibit and live demo
2nd Place — IEEE SoutheastCon Hardware Design Competition
2024 · VT CRO SoutheastCon team
Winner ($1,500) — NFTE World Series of Innovation
1st place, MetLife Foundation Good Health & Wellbeing Challenge, 2022–23 · MADS
Peer-reviewed publication — IJISRT
September 2024 · IJISRT24AUG1182
Best in Course — Integrated Design Project (ECE 2804)
Virginia Tech, Spring 2025 · Wireless Sensor Node
Advanced Embedded Systems pilot cohort
Selected for the pilot offering of ECE 4534, Virginia Tech — now lead TA for the course
Speaker — NFTE UN Global Goals Conversation 2023
Commendation letter — Nestlé Corporate Affairs
MADS pitch at the Moga factory
Dean's List '23, '24, '25 · Honors College
Virginia Tech
09/Skills
10/Contact
Open to conversations about robotics, embedded systems, ML, and interesting problems in general.
