Founder of the XR Midwest Hackathon, bringing together developers, mentors, and extended reality enthusiasts.∗ Organizing hackathon rollout, sponsorship outreach, hardware logistics, venue reservation and staging.Responsible for obtaining sponsorship, to date have brought in $11,000 of funding and $36,000 of hardware for students.Serving as keynote speaker and directing Communications Team during XR Midwest event.

Developer for on-premise large language models with thousands of simultaneous users. Built applications that leverage LLMs such as VR scenes with AI assistants, code generation and execution, RAG (retrieval augmented generation) pipelines, and AI intercommunication agent design. Due to the success of this work, it was presented at the 6th Annual Sandia XR Conference, as well as to Sandia and NNSA leadership.

Spearhead efforts to connect with industry professionals, collaborate with tech innovators, and expand our network within the immersive technology community. ARI is dedicated to exploring the cutting-edge of virtual and augmented reality, providing students with opportunities to learn, create, and innovate in this rapidly evolving area, and making XR a more accessible field as a whole.

CMJ is an organization working to inspire, prepare, and support a critical mass of measurement professionals and partners as they work towards a socially just assessment and measurement system. The Youth Action Board offers student perspectives and input into the future growth of a holistic method of measurement.

Collaborated with the Interacting Robotics Systems Laboratory to develop a virtual environment for BAXTER robot pathfinding. Mentored by Dr. Nilanjan Chakraborty.