Nuclear Thermal Propulsion hardware-in-the-loop Development
Leading Embedded Systems @ Purdue: organizing projects, mentoring members, and overseeing technical direction across the team.
Working on autonomous embedded systems research and building a classifier for insect identification.
Developing interconnection strategies for printed polymer composites for temperature sensing. Fabricated composite laminates using conductive filament, ran FEA thermal and stress models, and reviewed 100+ papers contributing to a state-of-the-art survey on memory-enabled sensing materials.
Developing embedded firmware for an NRF52840 to wirelessly transmit real-time resistivity data using BLE. Designing carbon filament-based sensors for stress, strain, and structural damage detection and fabricated 15 CNF-modified PLA composite dogbone specimens to characterize electrical resistivity.
Building a hardware-in-the-loop test system for UAV's — writing drivers for LIDAR, hover control, and sensor input on ESP32 with Zephyr RTOS
Built the monitoring and control software for Maelstrom, a 500-lbf kerosene-LOX rocket engine — real-time sensor acquisition, valve control, and emergency shutdown, all integrated through a P&ID interface
Conducted fuzz testing on open-source applications including FFmpeg and Calibre using AFL++ and Snapchange, analyzing code coverage and application behavior to identify potential vulnerabilities.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Graduated Summa Cum Laude (4.83/4.00 GPA)
A selection of embedded systems, propulsion controls, hardware-in-the-loop testbeds, and intelligent sensing projects.
A Nuclear Electric Propulsion testbed for autonomous reactor control, mission-driven simulation, fault injection, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
Self-sensing additively manufactured aircraft structures that translate resistance changes into real-time stress, strain, damage, and landing-event telemetry.
Real-time command, instrumentation, autosequencing, data visualization, and emergency shutdown software for a 500-lbf kerosene / LOX rocket engine.
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STM32 flight controller built without a HAL, including custom peripheral drivers and a real-time PID auto-leveling loop.
Explore Repository
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Deterministic flight-test infrastructure that injects simulated sensor states into a real flight computer before risking hardware in the air.
Embedded Systems @ Purdue
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Security research using AFL++, Snapchange, gcov, and lcov to probe open-source applications and analyze code coverage and fault behavior.
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