About Me
I'm an aerospace engineering student at Georgia Tech (B.S./M.S., 3.96 GPA) who works across the full GNC and avionics stack: the flight dynamics and control laws that decide how a vehicle flies, and the boards, firmware, and telemetry that run those algorithms in flight.
At Sandia National Laboratories, I trained multi-agent deep RL policies for hypersonic and extra-long-range intercept guidance on A100/H100 GPU clusters, raising intercept success 30% over ProNav. With Ramblin' Rocketry's GNC team, I linearized a thrust-vane rocket across 200+ trim points, tuned LQR controllers, implemented them in C on an STM32, and developed QUEST attitude estimation. As President of Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry (GTXR), I built the inertial roll-coupling model behind my AIAA paper, which took 3rd place in the undergraduate category at the AIAA Region II Student Conference. It set the sustainer fin cant for our rocket, and flight data validated it. I also optimized fin geometry across 250,000+ designs on PACE HPC and used a 2,000-flight Monte Carlo analysis to predict the landing zone.
As a GTXR avionics engineer, I owned flight hardware, firmware, and ground software: a 6-layer STM32H6 flight-computer PCB (PC104), DAQ and pyro/ignitor boards with safety-inhibit and reverse-polarity protection, bare-metal sensor drivers (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, DMA), a CRC16-protected telemetry protocol, XBee/LoRa link budgets, wiring harnesses, and a Python mission-control stack. A quaternion strapdown attitude estimator I validated gates sustainer ignition in flight.
In July 2026, Mach 'N' Roll, a 17-ft, 283-lb, two-stage rocket built by a 100-member team I led, reached a club-record 31,850 ft. All avionics flew flawlessly on the first flight, and the vehicle was recovered intact inside its predicted dispersion region.
Now at Georgia Tech's CEREAL lab, I'm developing a real-time Lattice Boltzmann solver in C++/CUDA for rotorcraft aerodynamics. I'm also a co-inventor on multiple vehicle noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) technology patents.
Education
BS/MS Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech (May 2027 / May 2028), 3.96 GPA, Dean's List, Sidney Goldin Scholarship recipient.
Guidance, Navigation & Control
LQR, EKF, QUEST attitude estimation, and multi-agent deep RL — including hypersonic intercept guidance at Sandia National Laboratories.
Avionics & Embedded Systems
6-layer flight computer PCBs in Altium around STM32H6, bare-metal drivers, and telemetry — flew flawlessly on Mach 'N' Roll.
Rocketry Leadership
President of Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry, leading a 100-member team to a club-record 31,850-ft apogee.
Research
NASA ULI IMOCAS urban air mobility tools, F1Tenth autonomous racing, and a real-time CUDA Lattice Boltzmann CFD solver.
Publications
Two AIAA Aerospace Research Central papers on inertial roll coupling and rocket-motor data acquisition.