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Mountain View, CA, US

Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto, California

In the Dynamics and Control Algorithms group, I am involved in controller gain design, electric orbit raising simulation/optimization, and interfacing with the propulsion group. I continue to work on propulsion R&D designing test equipment and prototypes of next generation spacecraft hardware.

Palo Alto, California

My main responsibility in the propulsion group was analysis of electric and chemical thruster plumes to determine their interactions with the rest of the spacecraft, and upgrading/automating simulation software. I also completed a wide variety of special analysis projects, and was heavily involved in hardware R&D.

Uplift was a non-profit dedicated to developing and implementing programs for drone delivered humanitarian aid and disaster relief. I worked on a two man team designing and prototyping an original, low cost unmanned airplane to airlift a 2 kg payload up to 70 km away. Our work has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR, Make Magazine, and the BBC.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

My research assistantship at the MIT Space Propulsion Lab encompassed theoretical, computational, and experimental investigation into electric propulsion. One of the main limitations of Hall effect thrusters, devices commonly used on satellites for electrically powered propulsion, is the erosion of their inner coatings. The purpose of my research was to.

Aachen, Germany

As part of the German Academic Exchange Service's (DAAD) Research Internship in Science and Engineering program, I assisted a PhD candidate in the Aachen Institute for Computational Engineering Science (AICES) with his research into nanoscale friction. I worked to implement the finite element models he constructed to simulate friction in visco-elastic.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 4.75/5

I specialized in space propulsion. My research focused mainly on computational and theoretical Hall thruster models, but also included.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 3.78/4

Activities and Societies: Pi Tau Sigma Honorary Mechanical Engineering Society (since 2012), Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (since.