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

• Trained policies through reinforcement learning for multi-agent electromagnetic formation flight, for use in space as a set of collaborative agents
• Developed analytic and reinforcement learned heuristics for dynamic task rescheduling for agile Earth-observing spacecraft
• Trained machine learning models and created dataset for detection of ocean fronts from satellite imagery
• Fine-tuned vision-language models for spatial visual question answering on remote sensing imagery
• Designed, trained, tested, and validated vision models for cloud segmentation onboard ESA’s OPS-SAT mission
• Conducted space environment testing and prototyping with NASA for a novel lasercom pointing and tracking system using liquid lenses, including testing in microgravity on a parabolic flight

• Architected next-generation onboard compute platform for Planet’s Earth-observing satellite missions using NVIDIA GPUs as the first hire on the edge compute team
• Designed, specified, and developed hardware for a low-power computer vision instrument for onboard autonomy
• Wrote and deployed code for autonomous operations stack, including Linux camera drivers, model inference, security infrastructure, and operation with main flight computer
• Radiation tested components including NVIDIA Jetson devices at UC Davis cyclotron to qualify hardware for space operations
• Trained and distilled vision models for utility estimation for upcoming imaging activities, to be used for autonomous operations
• Designed algorithms for onboard autonomous task re-scheduling, data collection and deployment campaign in progress

• Interned under Taara, aiming 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.

• 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.