Perhaps the experience the impacted me the most was running research projects. Covering everything from graphene oxide reduction to carbon capture materials, competed internationally in robotics against teams from over 60 countries, and somehow ended up at Cambridge for a summer studying quantum mechanics. Now I'm in Atlanta, running molecular dynamics simulations in a nanotechnology lab and training for a half ironman on the side.

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My interest in electrical engineering has a strange origin. It started with abiogenesis, the question of how life emerged from non-living matter. The biology never fully satisfied me. The more I dug into it, the more I found myself gravitating toward systems that were complex but actually understandable, built on rules you could learn and reason about. That led me to computers, and eventually to semiconductors. There is something remarkable about the fact that virtually every piece of modern technology traces back to the behavior of electrons in a crystal lattice. It is not magic, it is physics and engineering working together at an almost absurd level of precision, and that is exactly what draws me to it.

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Within semiconductors, I am specifically interested in power optimization at the chip design level. It is easy to get caught up in raw performance, but power efficiency is where the real engineering challenge lives, and where the impact is biggest. Every watt saved at the chip level ripples outward: longer battery life, lower cooling costs, more sustainable data centers, more capable devices in power-constrained environments. As chips get denser and more powerful, managing that power budget becomes increasingly critical, and that is the problem I want to spend my career working on.

Outside the lab and classroom, I founded a physics organization in high school, competed in 6 international competitions across science, math, and robotics, and I am currently treasurer of GT's Triathlon Club while training for my first half ironman.

 

I am always open to research opportunities, internships, or just talking about semiconductors, endurance sports, or why abiogenesis is a rabbit hole you should never go down unless you have a lot of free time.