At Northeastern, I’ve been part of the Mars Rover Team, as well as the AerospaceNU club. As part of Rover, I have designed several major projects and contributed to many others, including two version of our 6 degree of freedom robotic arm, its end effector and wrist, new custom wheels and hubs, battery and electronics mounts, and more. I am currently working on my capstone project for Rover, which is a four-wheel swerve and adjustable suspension system. In AeroNU, my most signifigant project was the Carby V3 High Power Rocket, which flew once before catastrophic failure, but featured a novel 3D printed airframe and machined metal fincan. In addition I have since 2022, and plan to continue to mentor my former FRC Robotics Team 3623, to help teach and do design.

Employment Experience

RAI Institute (January 2025 to June 2025)

My most recent co-op was at the RAI institute, where I supported the development of the next generation of a high-performance humanoid robotics platform. Particularly I worked to test and improve concepts for new actuator designs, including planetary gearing, motor performance, and bearing geometry. I also extensively prototyped and iterated on internal wiring clockspring mechanisms to allow for the elimination of all external cabling harnesses through the creation of cycle testing setups, both machined and 3D printed.

For the final design, I also proposed a parallel design, which became the final version, of a high-stress structual component for the humanoid arm, which involved multiple iterations to optimize for serviceability, mass, and stiffness. Additionally, I performed an evalutaion of three different remoting methods for the joint four motor, including four-bar, belt, and chain, for their performance in stiffness and backlash. After initial poor performance in backlash, I was able to signifgantly improve the performance of the belt through circumferntial expansion of each individual tooth.

Amazon Robotics (January 2024 to June 2024)

My second co-op experience was at Amazon Robotics in North Reading, MA, in the role of hardware engineering. During my time there, I created and compared kinematic concepts for a low-cost, scaleable robotics system, including the creation of URDF simulation models and basic mockup representations to ascess range of motion, collisions, and other functionality. In addition, I proposed and prototyped some variatrions of end effectors for the aforementioned system, to balance complexity with cost and functionality, and created a self-contained pneumatic control system for suction and blow-off. Lastly, I did two projects to retrofit existing off-the-shelf products to better suit our purposes, including integrating a lightweight brushless motor onto a heavy vacuum pump, signifigantly reducing its weight, as well as implementing open-source Moteus motor controllers onto existing planetary actuators to allow their use in future project prototypes.

Formlabs (January 2023 to June 2023)

My first co-op experience at Northeastern was at Formlabs, at which I primarily worked to design meaurement and assembly fixtures for Formlabs Form 4 LCD modules, tanks, and optical modules. These fixtures utilized pneumatic and/or hand actuation, and were constructed using almost exclusively in-house resouces, such as waterjetting, 3D printing, lasercutting, and manual machining, to minimize lead times and cost. In addition, I designed and prototyped a thermoformed tank lid using a 3D printed mold, a design derived from which is currently in production.

Outside of academic pursuits, I am an avid road cyclist and occasional runner, transit enthusiast, hobby photographer, and generally very technically oriented person.

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