Joined the STAGE Lab at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Leading in-person and online outreach for the QuSTEAM initiative with an emphasis on reaching students of historically disadvantaged communities. Feel free to check out the social media accounts I run as a part of that! https://linktr.ee/qubites

Joined the Cleland Group at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Fullstack development of qubit control systems using the QICK package. Designed a custom RF board to optimize ZCU-216 functionality board for superconducting qubits. Currently integrating my codebase with Labrad and developing two qubit operations. Also made a promo video for the lab!

Selected to be a part of the Naval Research Lab's Space Science Division as part of the U.S. Navy's Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). Simulated and built radiation detectors with novel architectures for NASA missions. Additionally conducted radiation field research for the Department of Homeland Security and Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Joined the Jaeger Lab at the University of Chicago's James Frank Institute. Examined the application of physical reservoir computing to autonomous locomotion of unit-modular reconfigurable robots by observing phase transitions in the reservoir's configuration space. 

Started for UChicago's Varsity Crew team my Freshman and Sophomore years as a 7th seat on the Mens' 8 scull. Fastest individual times were a 1:32 500 and a 6:45 2k. Stopped after herniating my L4-L5 disk during training and discovering signs of early-onset osteoarthritis. 

Created student organization to prevent Asian elders from being targeted for hate crimes. Partnered with two local predominantly Asian churches and a community center to connect student volunteers with elderly Asian community members as they ran errands. Established phone call lines in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Laotian. 

Selected to be part of the Garcia Center for Polymers' annual High School Research Program. As part of the Gersappe group, discovered and subsequently tested the usage of biological polymer-based pore fluids as sustainable soil fillers while part of the Materials Science and Chemical Engineering department. Research paper was recognized as part of the 2020 Regeneron STS Competition.

Helped found and run an automated carbon-negative greenhouse at Gilman School that operated entirely without the usage of soil. Each season's harvest was donated to the local community as part of an effort to educate people about sustainable farming and generally bring awareness to pressing ecological matters like climate change.

Selected to be part of the Belin Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program. Worked with the Wetzel Lab in Experimental High Energy Physics department to test particle detector components for usage in the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS experiment. Helped discover the phenomena of UV-induced optical recovery of scintillators. Research was presented at the 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference and the 2019 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

Selected to be a student mentor for Bridges at Gilman School. Tutored Baltimore City students in a variety of topics and helped them apply for local magnet schools. Founded the Bridges Math Club to teach a competition math curriculum developed in conjunction with local public school teachers. Recognized as part of the 2019 Carson Scholarship Fund.

Under the mentorship of a Thomas Jefferson High School research teacher (my high school did not have a research program), independently discovered and identified 36 topologically nontrivial materials using a density functional theory code package. Later used maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) to examine the electronic and chiral magnetotransport phenomena for each material. Research paper was recognized as part of the 2017 Siemens Competition.*

*Archived link. The Siemens Competition was discontinued in 2018.