Leading avionics and perception hardware development for semi-autonomous fire-suppression drones.

• Worked closely with a team of product managers, industrial designers, embedded systems SWEs, and vendors designing Carepods, a scalable, self-serve primary care kiosk

• Owned engineering of seven subsystems consisting of 200+ parts and 25% of full system BoM. Reduced per-subsystem cost by up to 70% and assembly time by up to 95%.

• Responsibilities included: product definition and aligning stakeholders on engineering requirements; engineering design including CAD, tolerance stackup analysis, DFMA, and prototyping; vendor management; and quality control test planning & execution

• Lead design engineer for the reimagined Body Scanner, which generates a 3D body model and body measurements of a static human subject using cameras integrated within the Carepod interior. This included optimizing camera configurations for SW, HW, and aesthetic requirements; DFMA engineering of camera mounts, transmissible A-surfaces, and inter-subsystem APIs; and quality control throughout manufacturing and assembly.

Worked with professor Grace Gu on projects focused on 4D printing and self-assembling robots.

• Executed detailed test campaign to make system-wide recommendations for torque specification and seals for fittings operating at extreme pressures and temperatures.

• Designed test plan and tooling for design validation of novel valve pack with 8 independent valves.

• Compiled resources and best practices for bolted joints and K-factor determination to increase joint reliability.

• Redesigned front suspension to address compliance issues under off-axis loads in the direct actuation pushrod

• Conducted failure analysis on yielded and cracked upright using electron microscopy and fractography to determine nature and load case of failure

• Designed and manufactured precision welding jigs for chassis tabs which determine the location of our suspension control arms and define the vehicle's dynamics

• Supported optimization of rear upright for stiffness and weight reduction by simulating multiple individual and compound load cases in Ansys which the part would experience during racing