Teaching Assistant for MIT's course 2.680 – Unmanned Marine Vehicle Autonomy, Sensing and CommunicationsProvided support to students using the MOOS-IvP autonomy middleware as part of the course's hands-on components. As part of the course, students are required to develop their own C++ applications and behaviors that interface with MOOS-IvP and ultimately affect the vehicles' operational choices.

MIT Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems (LAMSS)Conference Presentations:- Presenter, “Estimation of the acoustic environment through machine learning techniques,” 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 5-9, 2018, Victoria, Canada.- Contributor, “Passive Acoustic Tracking for Behavior Mode Classification between Surface and Underwater Vehicles,” 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 1-5, 2018, Madrid, Spain. Submitted for publication.- Presenter, “Deployment of a passive acoustic collision alarm for autonomous underwater vehicles,” Acoustics ’17 Boston, meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 25-29, 2017, Boston, MA.- Presenter, “Design of a general autonomy payload for low-cost AUV R&D,” in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) 2016, meeting of IEEE/OES, November 6-9, 2016, Tokyo, Japan.

Teaching Assistant for MIT's course 2.681 – Environmental Ocean AcousticsProvided support to students developing their own MATLAB or Python implementations of models for acoustic propagation in ocean environments. As part of the course, students are required to write computational solutions to the acoustic propagation problem based on ray tracing theory, normal mode theory and wavenumber integration techniques.

- Developed and analyzed structural models of large-scale industrial equipment in STAAD.Pro, per American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and American Concrete Institute (ACI) codes.- Designed a pedestal-mounted crane for offshore operation, per American Petroleum Institute (API) Specification 2C.- Designed steel trusses and support towers for bulk-material ship loaders and conveyor systems over 3,000ft long.- Maintained all networking services and design workstations for a team of 15 engineers, drafters and administration.

- Reviewed mechanical design documentation and upgraded drawings to SolidWorks models for further development.- Designed a custom CNC mill in cylindrical configuration, within a 20in diameter frame, for use at 1200ft below sea level.- Integrated pre-existing and off-the-shelf components into new machine designs, reducing material scrapping.- Provided support and troubleshooting in the manufacturing, assembly, software development and testing of the machine.

- Developed and implemented vehicle-level validation test plans for charge behavior.- Designed a LabView interface for 12V system brown-out and reset tests in prototype vehicles.- Designed a test automation tool with CAN-bus capability for basic charge and vehicle sleep behavior.- Evaluated the vehicle state requirements for the firmware upgrade process in prototype vehicles.

- Researched technology and market options for Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in geothermal and waste-heat power applications.- Evaluated various organic fluids for 1MW or smaller ORC power plants with heat sources of 80-120°C.- Compared the performance of ORC and Kalina Cycle for a 10MW ORC power plant based in the US.- Studied fluidized bed heat exchangers as a possible solution to silica scaling in geothermal sites.

Continued development of OpenProp, a MATLAB-based open source propeller design software.Analyzed and implemented correction factor data to adjust propeller performance prediction curves.Developed a graphical user interface (GUI) for the propeller design suite.Developed a dual-operating-point blade optimization model for high-speed propellers.

Provided network and computing support to students and dorm residents as well as at on-campus computing environments.

Studied the needs of residents of The Boston Home to develop specific consumer-oriented products.Designed and manufactured a set of devices to enable accessibility to dinning room facilities for patients with Multiple Sclerosis or similar diseases who currently reside at The Boston Home.