# Carina T.

> Mechanical Engineering Student @ Columbia University l CUFR Board l Researcher at MBL l Incoming @ Boston Dynamics

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carina

## Work Experience
### Elected EBoard Member - Mechanical Engineering Operations & Treasury @ Columbia University Formula Racing
Jan 2025 – Present
Managing a $100k budget.
Collaborating with faculty advisors from the Mechanical Engineering Department to advocate for our team's projects.

### Dynamics Engineer @ Columbia University Formula Racing
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Researcher @ Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab @ Columbia University
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Mechanical Co-Lead @ The Nueva School
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Make all executive decisions on the robot relating to mechanisms, structure, and CAD

Lead daily meetings of a 20-person subteam to teach students CAD and our design process to construct the robot’s drivetrain, bellypan, superstructure, shooting mechanisms, etc.

Plan and present at weekly design reviews in front of whole 100-person team, mechanical engineering alumnus, and invited engineering faculty

Make design tutorial videos that teach students how to CAD in the off-season and lead all prototyping after the game is announced

First female lead in history of the school; well-versed in SolidWorks and Fusion360

### Current Affairs Club Lead and Moderator @ The Nueva School
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Plan monthly current-events discussions for the school with expert panelists on the topic; examples include: Political Extremism & Polarization, Ukraine-Russia Conflict, etc. https://roundtable64.wixsite.com/roundtable/

Lead weekly club meetings to plan discussions

### Peer Tutoring Coach @ The Nueva School
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Tutored middle and high school students in math and writing.

### Community Service Learning Club Lead @ The Nueva School
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Coordinated and interviewed Mayor Eric Rodriguez of San Mateo in front of 500 people. 

Carried out Nueva’s largest donation drive (raising over $15,000), plus other service activities I’ve led: writing postcards for midterms, stocked three libraries in Ghana & Botswana, monthly bike repairs at BikeX, holiday toy drives, coffee drive for veterans recovering from addiction.

### Technical Product Development Intern @ Sequel
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Researched and began developing an at-home test kit for women to send in tampons to screen for predisposition to Toxic Shock Syndrome.

### Intern at the Suzuki Lab @ Stanford University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
Researched spintronics by conducting FMR and SQUID analysis on pieces of LAFO to analyze their magnetic properties and the force required to move magnetic moments

Worked under P.h.D. students in the lab and culminated with a presentation in front of lab director

### Data Science Intern @ WomenCount
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Researched women running for office and modeled statistic analyses predicting which candidates would win to provide data for the company to decide which candidates required more funding.

Compiled and presented data on districts' political leanings, demographics, and previous elections.


## Education
### Columbia Engineering

### The Nueva School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carina-t-b721a12a5

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Last updated: 2026-04-10