Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MEng Aeronautical Engineering with a Year Abroad

Degree Classification: First Class Honours

Thesis: Design of low leakage MEMS valves for spacecraft applications

Research Assistant (PI: Prof. Kerri Cahoy) | Cambridge, MA

• Conducted space environment testing and prototyping with NASA for a novel lasercom pointing and tracking system using liquid lenses.
• Trained machine learning models and created a dataset for on-orbit cloud segmentation as part of a computer vision pipeline to identify ocean fronts.
• Tested and validated machine learning algorithms on ESA's OPS-SAT mission.
• Designed algorithms for dynamic alteration of spacecraft imaging schedules based on inputs from external perception systems.

Edge Compute/Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA

• Developed next-generation onboard compute platforms for Earth-observing satellite missions using NVIDIA GPUs.
• Designed, specified, and developed hardware for a low-power computer vision instrument.
• Trained machine learning vision models for spacecraft perception and trajectory planning.

Intern @X | Mountain View, CA

• Interned under Project Taara to provide low-cost free-space optical communications (FSOC) internet access for underdeveloped countries.
• Conducted communications architecture analysis for optically preamplified direct detection and coherent detection techniques.
• Modeled integrated photonics components to assess the capabilities of each architecture.

Software Developer Intern | London, UK

• Worked as a full stack software developer intern writing C# across teams managed under agile methodology.
• Automated part of the workflow for business analysts using Python, saving tens of hours on importing old functional specifications into JIRA.
• Described by the Chief Architect as a "Senior Software Developer disguised as an Intern."