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9 projects and 2 essays from college, 2016 to 2019

Projects

  1. Photo of the Built to Tilt machine: a metal cylinder on a wooden base with an LCD reading Welcome to BUILT TO TILT, and a joystick in front

    Project 01

    Built to Tilt

    A beautifully intricate, survival-based arcade game, my ME senior capstone.

    UC Berkeley · ME 102B Capstone · Spring 2018

    Mechatronics, Design & fabrication
  2. SolidWorks screenshot of the Liz-Turn robot: two linked transparent body segments with motors, gears and four curved orange legs

    Project 02

    Liz-Turn Robot

    A step towards understanding dynamic turning of hex and quadrupeds.

    CiBER Lab · UC Berkeley · 2016 – 2017

    Robotics, SolidWorks, Arduino, PID control
  3. Annotated electron microscope image of a skateboard fracture at a drill hole, labeling hackles, mirror zone, chip origin, stress discontinuity point and planar fracture surface; 1 mm scale

    Project 03

    Post-mortem Analysis of Brittle Fast-Fracture in a Skateboard

    How and why a skateboard deck failed the way it did, and how to mitigate it.

    UC Berkeley · ME 224

    Failure analysis, Fractography, SEM
  4. Blurred scatter plot of red and cyan points with a curved black decision boundary and brown crosses linked to nearby points by dotted lines

    Project 04

    Machine Learning

    Developing new ways to test a classification algorithm's predictability on new data.

    Leidos · Summer 2016

    MATLAB, Python, Classification
  5. Top-down CAD render of the Stratus lotus design: overlapping petal-shaped metal panels around a small turbine at the center

    Project 05

    WaterSEER Design Competition

    1st place in a $12k UC Berkeley-wide competition to design a device that passively condenses water from the air.

    UC Berkeley · Stratus Designs · Spring 2016

    1st place, CAD, FEA, Rendering
  6. Close render of the VitaPrint dispensing nozzle, a steel cone with a small yellow tip above a round print platform and two support posts

    Project 06

    VitaPrint by Unutri

    3D printing multivitamins, simplifying supplements. A hardware startup started by three friends.

    Unutri · 2016 – 2017

    Startup, Mechatronics, 3D printing
  7. Photo of the Bluetooth RC car's electronics: Arduino, breadboard, red motor controller board and tangled colored jumper wires on a blue plastic chassis

    Project 07

    Bluetooth RC Car

    A quick, maneuverable, rapid-prototyped RC car.

    UC Berkeley · Design Innovations

    Rapid prototyping, Arduino, Laser cutting
  8. Diagram of the heat transfer problem: a cooling part with grid nodes T(m,n), an impinging jet, free convection and boundary layer flow, labeled T infinity

    Project 08

    Heat Transfer: Problem Design and Nodal Analysis

    Programmatically designing a stable transient nodal model of a cooling aluminum extrusion.

    UC Berkeley · ME 109

    Heat transfer, Numerical methods, MATLAB
  9. Pencil sketch titled Auto-identification of waste bins: a camera above compost, recyclable and landfill bins, with four items sorted by bin

    Project 09

    Green Product Development

    EcoToss, a sustainable product development project.

    Sustainable design

Writing

  1. 4 min read

    A Remote Workforce is Remote indeed

    Why a remote workforce will always feel so distant

    The is the golden age of technology, just two decades into the 21st century. Tech companies dominate the markets, global news, and dinner time conversations. They set the pace of a rapidly evolving US economy, and…

  2. 4 min read

    The Death of Death-by-Millennial

    Millennials Never “Killed” Anything. The Internet and the Great Recession Did.

    You have heard it all before. Millennials hate free speech! Millennials killed the housing market! Millennials are killing… brunch? This cacophony of sophistry is just a mounting pile of internet-enabled, editorialized…