Experience

Education ​

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA — May 2029
B.S.E. Electrical Engineering with Computing · Minor in Materials Science/Engineering · GPA 5.0/5.0
  • Courses: Algorithms, Graduate Computer System Architecture, Embedded Systems
Homestead High School Cupertino, CA — June 2025
GPA 4.0/4.0

Research & Work ​

MIT Low Energy Autonomous Navigation Group — Student Researcher May 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 Researcher Aug 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 Researcher Jun 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 — Student Jun 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 Laboratory Aug 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 Team Mar 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 Motorsports Aug 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.

"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