Hi! Thanks for visiting my website.

I am currently (early 2025) a fifth-year PhD student in Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department. I am co-advised by Professors Arun Majumdar and Rob Jackson. My research aims to develop processes that catalytically decompose the greenhouse gas methane, with the hope that such processes could be deployed either as emissions-control devices on methane sources or as 'atmospheric methane removal' on ambient air. I plan to defend my thesis in the summer of 2025. My work has been supported by, among other sources, a NSF GRFP fellowship and the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator.

While my PhD research focuses on chemical and process engineering, my undergraduate studies focused on mechanical design and design for manufacturing, while my MS focused on mechatronics. I currently help to teach the injection molding class in the Product Realization Lab, Stanford's student machine shop.

While a graduate student, I helped launch Holocene Climate, a direct air capture startup that was awarded a Student XPrize in 2021 and has since gone on to raise public and private funding and to build a pilot-scale DAC machine. I've also previously held engineering internships at Livermore National Lab and Wrightspeed, as well as policy-related internships at the California Air Resources Board and at the nonprofit Energy Futures Initiative.

As I'll be graduating later this year, I am interested in exploring job opportunities where I can apply my skills to climate change mitigation (or other important problems), most likely in an R&D engineering role. Please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Outside of school and work, I enjoy rock climbing, hiking, and camping. I grew up in both Oakland, CA, and Washington, DC.