Optics & Photonics
Coupled carrier and photon rate equations with gain compression. Threshold 22.9 mA, oscillations at 5 to 15 GHz.
MATLABEnd-to-end link: lens coupling into multimode fibre, random polarisation, electro-optic modulation, PIN detection.
MATLABBachelor's thesis on photonic integrated circuits and all-optical architectures past the limits of silicon.
ThesisCircuits & Power
LM317 driver holding output current flat against supply variation, building toward a protected laser-diode driver.
KiCadCascaded biquads giving a 1 kHz to 50 kHz passband over 45 dB stopband, recovering a 30 kHz tone from white noise.
LTspiceNMOS cascode with an active current-source load, hand-analysed from Level-1 parameters before simulating.
LTspiceRobotics & Embedded Systems
Person-following robot: L298N drive on split rails, PID distance control, YOLO vision tracking on a Raspberry Pi.
PythonAutonomous disinfecting robot with a 3D-printed chassis and ultrasonic obstacle detection, built for under $150.
ArduinoSemiconductors & Fabrication
Academic progression
Most recent first: back from the MS through graduate photonics and analog circuit design to the undergraduate hands-on builds it started with.
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May
2027MS Electrical Engineering expectedBinghamton University, Physical Electronics and Electro-Optics.
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Summer 2026
to presentConstant-current driver in KiCadSelf-directed. Moving from simulation into fabrication and bench measurement, heading toward a laser diode driver.
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Spring
2026Electro-optics and semiconductor lasersEnd-to-end fiber-optic link design and rate-equation modeling of a directly modulated laser.
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Fall
2025Graduate analog design at Binghamton8th-order Sallen-Key band-pass filter and a CMOS cascode amplifier reaching 86 dB, both worked out by hand before simulating.
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May
2025BS Electrical Engineering conferredSUNY Polytechnic Institute, College of Engineering.
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Spring
2025Bachelor's thesis on optical computingFirst sustained work in photonics, covering photonic integrated circuits and optical processing architectures.
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Oct 2024
to Aug 2025Research Associate, AI roboticsNVIDIA Isaac stack, perception and motion planning, GPU workload profiling.
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Summer
2024Personal Carrier RobotSummer Undergraduate Research Program. Motor drive, power rails, PID control, and vision-based tracking on a real platform.
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Spring
2024Silicon Thermal OxidationSemiconductor Experimentation Research at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. First cleanroom process work, Deal-Grove modeling and SEM characterization. Took second place at the SUNY Poly Student Project Showcase.
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Spring
2024UV-C Sterilization RobotCET 429 at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, undergraduate. First full hardware build: 3D-printed chassis, Arduino drive and sensing, the whole robot under $150 in parts.