University of California, Irvine

• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Specialization in Design of Mechanical Systems (3.0/4.0)
• Nominee: ASEE Pacific Southwest 2021 Student Award
• Grant Recipient: Summer Undergraduate Research Program 2020
• Vice President: Zot Autonomous Vehicles 2020-2021
• Vice President: Interfaith Student Council 2018 - 2021

AT&T - Construction & Engineering Dept.

• Daily: Investigate telecommunications infrastructure within distribution areas to determine readiness for retirement. Apply GIS tools, such as spatial analysis, on company tracking systems (e.g. loop, terminal, serving status) to improve processing times of DAs. Record time study results for each activity within process to define task automation prioritization.
• Weekly: Communicate time-sensitive results of analysis to relevant stakeholders. Aggregate and analyze performance data over activities, identifying bottlenecks and readjusting as necessary -- namely creating and modifying work automation scripts (was power automate/powershell/VBA, switching to python + pandas, selenium).
• As necessary: Extract and preprocess information (Python: PySpark, pandas) from big data streams (Palantir) to provide team with actionable, sufficient, and current information for use in performing duties. Offer self-written scripts and templates to aid team in tasks.

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ALVA Manufacturing

When I wasn't ballooning engineering drawings, I would walk the shop floor with the project engineer to conduct time studies during the machining, shipping & packaging, and assembly processes to identify where we could improve efficiency. I was also tasked with bringing our laser-marking processes in-house, so I conducted trade studies, communicated with the vendors, and wrote an SOP for the operators.

After the summer, I decided to stay on the team for a few more months to follow ALVA through their AS9100 recertification process. Here, I digitized their supplier management database (supplier certifications, contract reviews, risk management documents), and I prepared and verified First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs) for and from the parts inspector. I also proposed and got approval for an automated ballooning software, and I was responsible for training the new interns on using the software in addition to the AS9100 Rev B and AS9102 data-packaging of inspection reports.

UAV Forge - AUVSI SUAS Competition Team

Management Perspective: As the head of our student-led organization of 60, I took a novel approach to leading our team by incorporating management strategies (decision analysis, organizational behavior, management science) that I had learned or was learning in management courses; this year was also the first year that we had recruited students outside of the mechanical and aerospace department (e.g. business, computer science) in order to perform the various functions that an organization of our size required.

Engineering Perspective: As the chief engineer, I spearheaded the first system requirements analysis during my time at UCI by investigating the AUVSI SUAS rulebook and frequently interacting with the competition judges and other stakeholders on the AUVSI forum. I created the Concept of Operations, generated the functional and physical architectures, and formed the system validation plan. I analyzed potential risks -- including the threats posed to our design, manufacturing, and assembly processes by COVID-19, and factored this into my feasibility analyses. I introduced our team to and strictly adhered to the V-model for the physical design of the system and the Waterfall model for the logical architecture of the system. In doing so, we were able to: decompose our system validation test into subsystem and component tests with quantifiable metrics for our design goals; identify interface requirements for each to improve integrability; and make holistic design choices with clear objectives in mind in all phases of the process.

My role as the Aerodynamics Lead is to manage a team of 12 engineers to design, manufacture, simulate, and test various structural and propulsive components of both the autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and the Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) in order to perform optimally for the AUVSI-SUAS competition. Work includes component modeling, CFD analysis, and selection of structural components, determining flight characteristics of UAV by conducting motor, propeller, and battery simulations, and designing and implementing a vertical thrust stand for use in comparing/interpolating experimental data to theoretical data, while ensuring my team receives all of the support and guidance they need to complete their tasks efficiently

Pigeon

Multidisciplinary engineering design project: Prototyped a solution to solve last-mile delivery inefficiencies. Involved designing and prototyping multi-agent unmanned aerial systems (UAS) solving a simple assignment problem to allocate delivery UAVs to packages, as well as a simple centralized control system to perform deliveries to multiple addresses simultaneously

PetrTogether

Python project using CVXPY & Numpy: Automatically match senior mechanical engineering students at UCI to senior design projects based on their preferences using linear programming.

Artificial Pancreas

2020

Python project using OpenAI Gym: Regulated blood sugar levels of patients in silico by creating a reinforcement learning-based controller to learn insulin characteristics of type 1 diabetes patients and administer personalized levels of insulin.

Pneumatic Cylinder Robot

2019

Arduino project: Created an autonomous robot using piston-actuated rack and pinion propulsion with PID tuned servo steering. Implemented dead-reckoning using odometer and heading measurements from reed switch and magnetometer.

FSAE Racecar