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Working at Ben T. Zinn Combustion Lab under Dr. Adam Steinberg on projects relating to lowering emissions and environmental impact from civil aircraft using sustainable aviation fuels and lean premixed pre-vaporized combustors

Engine Combustion BranchInvestigated 4th generation NASA lean-direct injection burner in 5 atm flametube for reduction of NOx emissions in commercial subsonic and supersonic gas turbine enginesAssisted NASA engineers in set up of high-speed OH* chemiluminescence, kerosene planar laser induced fluorescence, and particle image velocimetry measurementsUsed previous campaign sample data to develop MATLAB algorithms to efficiently analyze acquired data for combustion dynamics and blow-off characterizationUsed low-speed analysis techniques such as Lomb-Scargle periodograms to identify unwanted data fluctuations from compressed air supply

Planetary Defense GroupRan 2D and 3D simulations on bolide airbursts using Spheral to understand affects of changing bolide diameter, entry velocity, and other variables on energy deposition, burst altitude, etc. Set-up and ran large-scale smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations on high-performance computer clustersModified simulation run script to control outputs, which were visualized in VisIt and/or postprocessed in MATLABConducted sensitivity studies showing previously unexplored dependency of SPH simulation results on particle number

Thesis: Experimental Investigation of Particle-Laden Underexpanded Jet FlowAdvisors: Franceso Panerai and Laura Villafane GPA: 4.00/4.00

Worked with team of 3 graduate students to contribute to the design of vacuum systemsand fluid flow controls for hypersonic plasma wind tunnel facilityAssisting with assembly and preliminary testing of individual components such as coolingsystems, power supply, etc.

Grader for Aerospace Engineering 435: Electric Propulsion taught by Professor Joshua Rovey during Spring 2022 semester

Served on Executive Board for AIAA Student Branch at UIUC all years on campus, highlighted by 2 year tenure Chairman during junior and senior year and all other roles described otherwise belowSenior AdvisorAfter serving on the executive board for 4 years, senior advisor responsibilities include general guidance and oversight of the existing boardChairmanResponsible for numerous social and professional networking events for members. Student membership at 70+ students. Frequently host industry and research professionals to talk about their work and aerospace topics of interest. Organized first student branch trip to annual AIAA SciTech Conference fully-funded for 6 students including airfare, lodging, and conference registrationVice Chair for Internal AffairsResponsible for all on-campus events for student branch of AIAA. Organized multiple social events including annual Student vs. Faculty Softball game Assisted in planning fully-funded trip for 8 students to tour aerospace companies in Los AngelesOrganized annual freshman conference for incoming class of 120+ students to introduce them to the department and campus as a whole and provide resources to jump-start their college careersJunior Board ChairmenPrimary officer of executive board made exclusively of underclassmenOrganized specific events for underclassmen to introduce them to the department and opportunities provided by AIAA

Conducted CFD analysis on 2 blade wind turbine using Illinois Rocstar multiphysics softwareBuilt NREL Phase VI turbine in SolidWorks and optimized geometry for further meshingMeshed complex geometry using SALOME, gmsh, and CUBIT in preparation further fluid-structure interaction validation studies

Grader for Aerospace Engineering 323: Applied Aerospace Structures taught by Professor Philippe Geubelle during Spring 2021 semester

Assisted Dr. Ruzic’s group at the Center for Plasma - Materials Interactions on multiple projects that worked to characterize a surface wave plasma based system to use Hydrogen radicals and ions to clean Tin off of extreme ultraviolet lithography source chamber

GPA: 3.66/4.00Dean's List - Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2020

Created a computational model in Python of how cellular structure of skeletal muscle affects diffusion and diffusion-weighted MRI.

Primarily responsible for lab setup, monitoring, and execution and grading homework and exams3 classes overseen amounted to 120+ students enrolled in Physics, Physics w/Advanced Topics,and Fluids, Thermodynamics & Optics

Worked under Dr. Ashok Gopalarathnam to design and manufacture scaled airfoilmodels for subsonic wind tunnel testing in order to investigate effects of wake at highangles of attack in an effort to predict stallAnalyzed wake patterns and pressure fluctuations in downstream flow using smoke and tuft visualization

Worked under guidance of Daniel Guggenheim Medal Recipient Professor Antony JamesonRefurbished unused closed circuit wind tunnel test section in Aerospace Computing LabDesigned and built two-dimensional force balance to measure lift and drag on representative airfoilWrote Arduino code to actively read and plot load cell data for analysis