Education
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA — May 2029
B.S.E. Electrical Engineering with Computing · Minor in Materials Science/Engineering · GPA 5.0/5.0- Courses: Algorithms, Computer System Architecture, Embedded Systems
Homestead High SchoolCupertino, CA — June 2025
GPA 4.0/4.0- President: Programming Club, Cybersecurity Club
- Science Bowl · Robotics Software Lead
Research & Work
MIT Low Energy Autonomous Navigation Group — Student ResearcherMay 2026–Present
- Designing a hardware design verification pipeline for robotics platforms with real-time deployment of high-efficiency SOCs and AI vision accelerators.
- Studying efficient ASIC placement to minimize energy use while maximizing throughput.
MIT Ferroelectric Materials & Devices Group — Student ResearcherAug 2025–May 2026
- Improving on-chip energy storage using ferroelectric material effects.
- Tested wafers, analyzed, and optimized novel capacitors for energy and power density.
- Evaluated plate and in-plane capacitor polarization, power, and breakdown properties.
UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Lab — Student ResearcherJun 2024–Aug 2025
- Built low-cost 18-channel microfluidics potentiostat hardware.
- Optimized Teensy-based potentiostat and ECG core for high data throughput.
- Created FPGA firmware and C# driver for a 256-channel electrochemical camera.
BWSI: BASICs of ASICs, MIT Lincoln Labs — StudentJun 2024–Jul 2024
- Learned ASIC fabrication, design, Verilog verification and simulation.
- Led team of 6 to design and tape out SuperMic, an 8-channel beamforming ASIC.
- Designed and fabricated 7 additional accelerator, beamforming, and specialized ASICs.
Activities
MIT Open Compute LaboratoryAug 2025–Present
- Developed custom accelerators for DNNs; demonstrated PDM, Ternary, and INT8 inference.
- Built a custom RV32-IM CPU with pipelined design; compiled and ran Pong over VGA.
- Designing a custom FPGA server cluster with 100 Gb/s+ inter-FPGA bandwidth and >1.6M logic slices.
MIT Satellite TeamMar 2026–Present
- Designing custom power electronics for the LEONIRD High Altitude Balloon.
- Launched high altitude balloon and collected data at over 30,000 feet.
MIT MotorsportsAug 2025–May 2026
- Designing custom motor inverters for Formula SAE with 5× efficiency and 4× precision improvements.
- Improving EMI, reliability, safety, and performance.
Awards
- MIT 6.191 Fastest CPU in Class History
- Hackclub Undercity Winner
- ISEF 2nd Award 2025 — $15k Chief of Naval Research Award
- ISEF 3rd Award 2024 — Grand Award in Biomedical Engineering
- MakeMIT 2nd Place — Entertainment Track
- MIT Battlecode 2026 Finalist
- CSEF First in Electronics (2024) · First in Computational Systems (2023)
- Grand Prize — Best of Synopsys Championship (2024) · First Place (2023)
- FRC Arizona East Regional Winner 2024
- $1000 Medici Grant · PVSA Gold · picoCTF 2022 Top 2% · USACO Silver
Skills
Technical: ASIC Design · Verilog · Chisel · Yosys/Librelane · C++ · Python · Java · C# · Altium · Vivado · Bash · CAD · Wafer Testing · Probe Manipulation
Other: Tutoring (Algebra, Trigonometry, Java) · Team Management
Hobbies: Taekwondo — Fourth Degree Black Belt, 12+ years
Checkout my full list of projects here.