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About Me.

I am a fourth year honors program student at the University of Florida pursuing my Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. I am currently involved on campus as an undergraduate researcher in the Theoretical Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence Group and as the chief architect of Swamp Launch Rocket Team's Aero Sciences Sub-Teams. I am passionate about fluid dynamics and controls and their applications in rocketry and aeronautics.

Internships

May 2024 - July 2024

GNC Intern at Northrop Grumman

  • Designed and proposed Simulink model updates to flight software to improve handling qualities based on pilot feedback

  • Analyzed and reviewed flight software using a MATLAB toolchain for linear and nonlinear analysis of outer-loop control laws 

  • Trained engineers and served as the primary point of contact for the MATLAB toolchain 

January 2024 - April 2024

GNC Intern at Blue Origin 

  • Created a Simulink model and unit tests to validate New Glenn’s automated flight termination unit’s capability to self-destruct if critical systems fail after operator systems become fully autonomous

  • Developed a validation toolchain to anchor ground simulations to test data by creating MATLAB modules to map simulation signal names to corresponding test data signal names using regular expressions and object-oriented programming, which was used to detect a critical PLC bug that caused erroneous valve actuation under bang-bang control

  • Discovered and troubleshot a critical programmable logic controller crash which surfaced in simulations and hardware tests

Extracurriculars

May 2023 - Present

Undergraduate Researcher in Theoretical Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence Group

  • Characterized hypersonic nozzle flow using CFD for a DARPA research project lead by Steven A.E. Miller, Ph.D.

  • Authored a Fortran solver utilizing the Taylor Maccoll equation and oblique shock relations to predict the cone angle from a given Mach number and shockwave angle

  • Predicted flow field characteristics over the shear layer by solving for the Mach angles of the exhaust shock, internal shock, and trailing shock

  • Utilized SU2, Tecplot, and ParaView to create a database of tabulated results from sweeps for freestream and inlet pressure, temperature, Mach number, and density

December 2022 - June 2024

NASA USLI Flight Dynamics Lead Engineer in Swamp Launch Rocket Team

  • Headed the first CFD analyses performed on Swamp Launch, predicting flow separation on the vehicle’s outer diameter transition and informing design constraints accordingly

  • Led a sub-team of approximately 15 members to provide accurate launch vehicle models and mission performance simulations

  • Conducted OpenRocket simulations with measured center of mass, wind speed, and temperature to successfully complete launch procedures for NASA Student Launch Competition

  • Average altitude simulation error for 2022-2023 full-scale launches: 0.0906%

  • Conducted MATLAB Monte Carlo analyses in MATLAB using predictions from CFD and OpenRocket to determine how design changes in nosecone shape, surface roughness, and fin shape parameters affect the performance of the launch vehicle

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