Lifelong autodidact, bread baker, and explorer.
I graduated from UCSC with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering which was where I developed a love for problem solving, circuit design, hardware debugging, programming, and an eagerness to learn. Now I'm pursing an M.S. in Electrical Engineering at USC to further my knowledge and skills in IC technology/design/synthesis and power electronics. In pursuit of a brighter and more exciting future for all, I'm committed to driving sustainable and optimized solutions to tackle the world's most pressing challenges which is why I'm open to employment opportunities in the automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, as well as electronics industries anywhere on the West Coast. When not working on cool projects, you can find me baking sourdough boule in the kitchen 🍞, hiking local trails 🥾, or carving bowls at a skate park 🛹!
Projects
Education
Experience
Application Engineer
Nov 2023 - Present
Electric vehicle supply equipment as well as load management system R&D, hardware testing, application support, and technical documentation management.
Asset Health & Performance Center Engineer Intern
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Utilized GIS and ETL to provide informative data analysis on advanced line sensor technology installments across Northern California's electric grid. Leveraged root cause analysis, MySQL, and soft skills to cross-functionally coordinate with multiple teams on compiling a quarterly voltage curtailment report on solar powered line sensor units. Efforts to ensure that these line sensor units operate smoothly help mitigate and prevent wildfires in Northern California.
Projects
Bike Speedometer
Designed, prototyped, and built a bike speedometer from scratch using an Arduino (MCU), serial LCD, reed switch, magnet, and 9V battery supply. Calibrated the reed switch and built the bike speedometer's state machine by programming the MCU in C++. On the hardware side, the electronic interconnect between the LCD and MCU was soldered on a perfboard and then packaged insided a 3D printed enclosure. The speedometer successfully shows how fast you go in MPH based on the time it takes for the bike's front wheel to make one revolution.
Mult-Device Wireless Charger
Designed, prototyped, and built a Qi standard multi-device wireless charger for my senior capstone at UCSC. The charger can support up to 4 devices at the same time, features an intuitive charging indicator that displays the device(s) state of charge on an LCD, and comes with an efficient heat management system that ensures it can run under full load without over heating for long periods of time. With a max load (4 devices charging), the wireless charger has a decent charge rate of 1% per minute. Used SolidWorks, Ansys Mechanical, UltiMaker, 3D printing, OrCAD Capture, and Allegro PCB Editor.
Ground Bounce Test Circuit PCB
Developed a PCB test circuit that's able to experimentally observe the electrical phenomena of ground bounce: a deleterious effect where internal ground references of ICs shift which leads to glitches when logic devices switch states. Designed the circuit schematic using OrCAD Capture, PCB layout wih Allegro PCB Editor, and milled the PCB by using an M60 LPKF.
FPGA Flappy Bird Game
Designed and implemented a “Flappy Bird” game programmed on a Basys3 FPGA with a VGA monitor connected to it. The game involves getting a ball to make it through randomized gaps between walls moving towards it and each time it successfully does, the player's score increases. This fully-synchronous Verilog game was built with only positive edge-triggered flip-flops, assign statements, comparison operators, arithmetic operators, and mux statements.
Boolepathy
Worked on NeuroTechSC Club's Hardware Team and built a synthetic telepathy device with a silent-speech interface that takes in EMG signals from the jawline area and predicts if the user is thinking 'yes' of 'no' with 90% accuracy. We entered this project into the 2020 NeuroTechX Student Clubs Competition and placed 1st in the U.S.! Worked with Fusion 360 CAD to design the headset and OpenBCI for sampling EMG signals.
Education
University of Southern California
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering Aug 2025 - May 2027 Los Angeles, California
Major Course Work EE 443 - Intro to Power Systems EE 477 - MOS VLSI Circuit Design EE 537 - Modern Solid-State Devices EE 549 - Nanotechnology for Materials, Electronics, and Circuits
