Graduate student in Mechanical Engineering in the Precision Motion Control Lab/LIGO

-Undergraduate intern that worked primarily on the Systems/Mechanical Engineering side of A+LIGO -Worked on a variety of smaller projects, primarily dealing with optics. Major projects include:-Studied the annealing effects of coating materials on optics by inspecting via Microscope scan-Looked at cleaning techniques on black glass optics using particulate count-Found optimal beam paths and placement for seismic detector on Zemax

-Summer Undergraduate Researcher on a joint Caltech-JPL project-Worked on a Proof-of-concept experiment of Mars Mid-Air Drone Deployment-Designed a kinematic delta arm tether assembly via Solidworks and created a physical mechanical prototype along with electronic components

-Mechanical Engineering Researcher working on the instrumentation side of the optical design for the ROSIE Integral Field Unit on the Magellan IMACS-Designed Optic Mounts specific to the spectrometer on Solidworks and conducted FEA simulations for testing-Presented research via Poster Symposium at the 223rd American Astronomical Society Meeting-Gained knowledge of astronomy

-Tutored upper level middle-high school kids in Math (including calculus) and English

-High School Intern - Systems Engineering-Worked with Ground Systems Engineering on Hosted Payloads-Prepared slides and PDRs for customers -Gained knowledge of satellite payload design