Projects
Some of the puzzles I've obsessed over.
Rocketry
Reaching for the sky, literally and figuratively
- Founded Space Pickles chasing a vision of engineering freedom (and SpaceX)
- Competed in ARC, trying everything and everything: 3D-printed rockets, airbrakes, avionics, nonlinear optimization, wind tunnels
- Learned to make our own launch sites (junkyards, basketball courts, and backyards have been our second home)
- Propagated culture of freedom at AHS, running around in pickles and challenging students to place 2000+ stickers on walls to prove we could
iDENTify
Making smiles accessible everywhere easily
- Spending my summers filing files allowed me to recognize systemic problems in the dental industry, like emergency appointments
- Built app + 3D-printed attachment + trained ML model to predict caries, gingivitis, and periodontitis reducing complications and therefore emergencies
- Constantly iterating (talked to 100+ patients/dentists to understand constraints)
- Pitched at >10 dental expos, met Mini Suri, now working w/ VELMENI. Raised 2K.
Robotics
Competing to place cones/pipes or shoot rings/balls
- Joined 9114 Rotationaries for the resume, fell in love with the culture, now building at 6036 Peninsula Robotics
- Learned to motivate teams (improved rookie team perf leading sfw + strat)
- Currently trying everything and everything again, custom vision and control system solutions
- Also almost got kicked out of a hotel in Canada, played nerf gun wars in Idaho, and built a robot in a Hawaiian parking lot
Research
Working to preserve memories since it's all we have
- Thrown into Alzheimer's research at ASDRP, where I learned ML and found staring at MRIs to be cool
- Left to work on drone trajectory optimization but came back to Alzheimer's to finish my NeuroTokens solution
- Presented research at SCCUR 2025 (learned how to replace a tire otw) and currently authoring paper
Apps
Problems are everywhere but so are solutions
- Learned Swift and Flutter over a winter break for fun
- Built Resport, an app to connect communities to reuse sports equipment
- Built To-Do-It, an app organizing random thoughts into a to-do list and schedule for students using AI
- Currently building a central place for mini-games (Wavelength, Photo Roulette, etc) for bored seniors
Other Stuff
- Worked on Lexile-based text complexity analysis Google extension to generate worksheets for the public education system
- Built dental clinic website, managed traffic of 7000+, and configuring networks
- Installed a camera in my room to check whether I'm procrastinating
- Currently building a rudimentary humanoid to wash my dishes
if you can't tell, I don't like to constrain myself to working on one problem—there's too many cool things to solve :)