Experience

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA — May 2029
B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering with Computing · GPA 5.0/5.0
  • Courses: Algorithms, Grad Computer System Architecture, Embedded Systems, Computational Structures

Research & Work

Zero ASIC - TPU Chiplet Engineering — Full Stack Accelerator Designer Intern - Part Time Cambridge, MA · Aug 2026–Present
  • Designing open source TPU chiplet for edge inference - flexible systolic array core, minimize J/TOP
  • Working on HW/SW Co-design -> Architecture -> RTL -> Synthesis, PNR -> Verification -> Tapeout on TSMC 12nm
MIT FLAME Lab - GPU Design — Student Researcher - Part Time Cambridge, MA · Aug 2026–Present
  • Designing high performance open source GPU with full HW/SW Co-Design
  • Tapeout planned for 2027 provided architecture and results are promising
MIT Low Energy Autonomous Navigation Group — Student Researcher - Full Time Cambridge, MA · May 2026–Sep 2026
  • Designing 3D Gaussian Splatting FPGA Renderer for robotics platforms with real-time usage in SLAM and low power robots.
MIT Ferroelectric Materials & Devices Group — Student Researcher - Part Time Cambridge, MA · Aug 2025–May 2026
  • Improving on-chip energy storage using ferroelectric material effects.
  • Tested wafers, analyzed, and optimized novel capacitors for energy, power density
UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Lab — Student Researcher - Part Time Hybrid/Berkeley, CA · Jun 2024–Aug 2025
  • Built low-cost 18-channel microfluidics potentiostat & ECG hardware via Teensy optimization
  • Created FPGA firmware and C# driver for a 256-channel electrochemical camera.
BWSI: BASICs of ASICs, MIT Lincoln Labs — Student - Full Time Virtual · Jun 2024–Jul 2024
  • Learned ASIC fabrication, ASIC design, Verilog verification, simulation
  • Led team of 6 to design and tape out beamforming ASIC, tapedout 7 other accelerators

Projects

Dawn CPU - Out of Order RV32 CPU Core with DDR4 Support Sep 2025–Present
  • Full OOO Risc-V Core with Compiler and Toolchain Support. DDR4 Memory, Split I/D non-blocking cache with arbitration
  • Runs DOOM on Kintex Ultrascale FPGA at 60fps, 250 Mhz Timing Closure. 7+ Million Instagram Views
  • Planned Self-Funded tape out on GF180 along with full TPU GPU System on Chip in June 2027. Devboard Planned
Kernn - Fully Programmable Neural Network Accelerator Mar 2026–Present
  • FPGA-based parameterizable Neural Network Accelerator based on systolic array.
  • Tiled computation, Programmable for any pytorch DNN model within memory constraint.
  • Planned integration with RISC-V core and two wide systolic pipelines for throughput
PDM Bitstream Operators for Efficient Beamforming - International ISEF 2nd Award Jul 2024–Sep 2025
  • Leveraged microphone Pulse Density Modulated bitstreams to increase beamforming speed dramatically (250x runtime improvement) while lowering power demands
  • Custom designed PCB hardware and built an FPGA-based acoustic camera.

Activities

MIT Open Compute Laboratory - Lead Aug 2025–Present
  • Developed custom accelerators for DNNs; Demonstrated Ternary, INT8 Inference
  • Designing custom FPGA server cluster with 100Gb/s+ inter-FPGA bandwidth
MIT Satellite Team Mar 2026–Present
  • Designing custom electronics for LEONIRD High Altitude Balloon & CubeSat,
  • Launched High Altitude Balloon and collected data at over 30,000 feet
MIT Motorsports Aug 2025–May 2026
  • Designing custom motor inverters for racecar with 5x efficiency, 4x precision boost.

Awards

  • Eigenprize 2nd Place $30k Grant
  • Solved Jane Street ASIC Reverse Engineer Challenge
  • MIT 6.191 Fastest CPU/NN Accelerator
  • MakeMIT 2nd Award
  • MIT Battlecode 2026 Finalist
  • $15k Naval Research Award
  • ISEF 2nd Award & 3rd Award

Skills

Technical: ASIC Design, Verilog, Chisel, Yosys/Librelane, C++, Python, Java, Altium, C#, Vivado, CAD, Wafer Probing

Hobbies: Taekwondo — Fourth Degree Black Belt, 12+ years

Checkout my full list of projects here.

"I want to experience the whole world, to feel every high and every low, to live so fully that death itself is surprised to find me." — Anonymous