About.

I'm a first-year electrical engineering student at Michigan State, and most of what I do sits between a sensor and the software reading it. In the Microtechnology Lab I work on electrochemical detection of heavy-metal ions — cadmium, lead, mercury — at low concentrations in buffer and soil solutions, running cyclic and differential-pulse voltammetry on carbon-fiber electrodes and helping develop an affordable microfluidic potentiostat built around a Teensy and a custom analog front end.

Outside the lab, I serve as Technical Director for the IEEE MSU Student Branch, where I design boards and run workshops that take other undergraduates through schematic capture, layout, SMD assembly, and firmware in a single session. I also contribute to MSU Solar Car Racing on the Vehicle Controls and Sensing subteam — schematic capture, parts selection, and fine-pitch assembly on 4-layer impedance-controlled boards for the safety-critical control systems.

This summer I'll join Professor Thomas Clark's photonics lab. I want to concentrate in microelectronics and work at the edge where RF and photonics meet — high-speed mixed-signal design, integrated photonic front ends, the electronics that sit one layer away from a physical measurement. The trajectory I'm planning for is a PhD in electrical engineering.