About Me

I’m currently doing a wee bit of travel after finishing my Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (as of Feb 2026).

I’ve worked on a wide variety of projects both related and unrelated to my time at CMU, such as a couple of CMOS RF amplifiers with interesting characteristics, sense amplifier designs, MEMS device characterization, etc. Here’s a link to my resume if you want further info: resume PDF.

I enjoy reading books in my free time. I’ve gotten through a handful of books in the Expanse series by James Corey, Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner, the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell, Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan trilogy, most of Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Sequence, some of Ian Douglas’s Star Carrier series, “The Final Leap” by John Bateson, “You Are Worth It” by Kyle Carpenter, and many more during my doctorate. At the moment, I’m working my way through the Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra book series. I also finally got around to Herman Wouk’s “Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance” in the summer of 2025.

I firmly believe in actively seeking out new and diverse experiences far outside the bounds of one’s comfort zone. This was one of my core reasons for seeking an education in electrical engineering in Pittsburgh, PA, so very far away from the Bay Area city I grew up in. It ultimately drove me to pursue my doctorate in ECE, along with some admittedly naive notions of becoming a scientist. In the end, it is the reason I am currently traveling in Australia, on the opposite side of the world from my home.

I got my start in electrical engineering at a young age through a variety of early 2000s websites showcasing electrostatic machines (like this one: Michel Maussion’s Electrostatics experiments). At the time, I thought they looked bloody cool. The simple and cheap construction also appealed to me, as a primary school-age child scrounging for parts from the kitchen and discarded electronics. In my adolescence I built a series of junkyard Van de Graaf generators before moving on to flyback transformers, Tesla coils, and Marx generators.