Jan 2025 - Present (Hawthorne, CA)
May 2024 - Dec 2024 (Elkton, MD)
Sept 2024 - Dec 2024 (Needham, MA)
Sept 2023 - Sept 2024
Sept 2022 - Sept 2023
May 2023 - Mar 2024 (Kandi, IND)
Mechanical Power Components Intern @ SpaceX
Excited to share that I’ve accepted an Engineering Intern position at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA for Spring 2025! A huge thanks to Hope Haythorne, Darrion C. , and Michael D’Antonio for making the process so smooth and for all the support! ooking forward to the great work I'll do at SpaceX!
Propulsion Preliminary Design Intern @ Northrop Grumman
I worked at the Northrop Grumman for my sophomore year internship in summer 2024. I was a part of the preliminary design group and assisted project engineers in designing Solid Rocket Motors and Gas generators. As an intern at the company, I learned about industry standards and partook in design reviews and peer reviews for everything I worked on. I performed conceptual trade studies to achieve certain parameters and requirements that the motors were designated to meet, and also designed propellant grains, insulation, casing and nozzles for some projects I was working on throughout the summer.
Mechanical Design Lead @ Olin Baja
As the Mechanical Design Lead of my school's Baja SAE team, I conducted design reviews and defined goals for each of the subteams on our car. I acted as a peer reviewer, mentor, and integration supervisor to make sure that the components of our car came together easily. I helped modify our part numbering database to ensure easy onboarding for new team members and aimed to improve assembly time by at least 50%.
Head of Suspension, Steering & Brakes
As the suspension subteam lead, I designed improvements to our braking system that increased our braking FOS by 20%, proposed a solution that allowed our shafts to be retained, and introduced fixes for suspension interferences.
Suspension Team Member
In my first year, I co-designed the Suspension Knuckle, optimizing the part for steering parameters like camber, toe, SAI, and caster while maintaining a 0 zero scrub radius. We aimed for a parameter improvement of 10% and tried to implement Ackermann steering. We considered tradeoffs and defined the most important parameters for success, prioritizing those improvements.
Robotics Lab Research Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology
At the Indian Institute of Technology, I got a chance to work on 5 distinct robotics projects, including a large scale stair stepping robot to test 3d printed linkages, an animal model quadruped robot, and 3 different drone designs using an F450 frame and original frames. I worked onsite as a research assitant, and am continuing the work in the US. Currently, I am working on a large scale quadruped robot using high power motors, and more animal models for drones. This is work only done during the academic school year.
Mechanical Team Member @ Olin Plasma Engineering Propulsion Lab
As a team member at our school's Ion Propulsion Lab, I designed an improved Hall Thruster force measurement stand. I researched industry standard near-frictionless pivot methods like flexures, cross-knives, and razor blades, and used available materials to improve cost effectiveness for my design.
May 2023 - Apr 2024 (Needham, MA)
Oct 2022 - Feb 2024 (Needham, MA)
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023 (Junction, TX)
Sept 2022 - Aug 2023 (Needham, MA)
Mechanical Researcher @ Olin Robot Lab
As a researcher at my school's robot Lab, I worked on the John Deere GATOR, Hummingbird Packaging Drone, and Mechanical Weeder Robot. On GATOR, I designed 3D printed mounts for sensing & instrumentation. On Hummingbird, I created composite fiberglass overlays and 3D printed support structures, using FEA to validate my results. On the Weeder, I designed and fabricated a claw that was used to remove weeds without uprooting plants.
Mechanical Team Member @ NASA National Eclipse Balooning Project
As a mechanical team member on NEBP, I went with a team of undergraduate students to Junction, TX for NASA's solar eclipse balloon recording competition. For half a year beforehand, I assisted in designed modules for the balloon launch, including the camera module and the wifi module.
Research Assistant @ Olin Satellite Spectrum Technology Policy Group
As a Research Lab intern in OSSTP, I worked on two different subteams: NGSO Data Scraping and UHF ground station. In the NGSO subteam, I worked on two research papers that advocated for FCC policy changes regarding orbital debris mitigation and law amendments for NGSO satellites. In the UHF subteam, I worked with a small team of interdisciplinary researchers to get a satellite ground station up and running on the roof of Olin College. I designed mounting brackets and structural support to make sure the station was weatherproof and worked in varying weather conditions. As a part of this subteam, I also passed the HAM radio license test and am allowed to operate the radios part of the ground station.