Education
Washington University in St. Louis
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Valedictorian; summa cum laude
Erwin C. Hoelscher Memorial Outstanding Senior Award
Gustav Mesmer Prize for Academic Achievement
Antoinette Frances Dames Award for Productive Scholarship in Engineering
Joseph Razek Prize for Outstanding Junior Award
Pi Tau Sigma Honorary
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Grant
Work
The Boeing Company
Loads and Dynamics Engineer
Created and taught curriculum for qualifying new engineers to support ground loads testing at Air Force Bases for the T7 Red Hawk program.
Identified and addressed roadblocks for the T7 Red Hawk program development relative to Air Force needs and military specifications; provided a set of solutions to Boeing and the the Air Force while shaping applicable requirements and agreements.
Wrote software components for modal analysis and data storage of flight-test flutter data.
Standardized and documented loads analysis processes to facilitate efficient work while eliminating traveled knowledge.
Washington University in St. Louis
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
Devised and applied a stability criterion to conjoin direct-deformation estimation (DDE) and dense optical flow (DOF) algorithms for strain mapping; captured the best elements of DDE and DOF while mitigating their flaws.
Collaborated with the Thomopolous Lab at Columbia University to optimize design parameters of new tendon repair device, published in Science Advances.
Developed automation routine for ABAQUS model generation and finite-element analysis, streamlining the design process of new medical devices.
Consulted in civil litigation regarding a motor vehicle accident; modeled and analyzed a dynamic system and composed report with findings.
The Boeing Company
Supplier Quality Engineering Intern
Led a multi-site team to analyze the effects of F-15 program directives on Boeing-incurred costs of supplier-fault rework, repair, and salvage (CoRRS); initiated replication of these directives to the KC-46 program.
Automated the analysis and metric-generation of notice of escapement data and cleaned database.
Created and automated the generation of a reports detailing Boeing-incurred rework costs and escalations for supplier delinquency; adapted for use by other sites and assisted with roll-out.
Washington University School of Medicine
Research Fellow
Designed, developed, tested, and patented a tracking system for thoracolumbar, open-spinal surgery.
Tested and confirmed the system’s viability for the market relative to industry standards.
Co-authored a patentability, market research, and functionality report.
Teaching
Washington University in St. Louis
Undergraduate Teaching Fellow
Dynamics and Vibrations
MEMS 4301, Dr. David Peters and Dr. Swami Karunamoothy
Led 3 office hours per week, creating example problems and detailing solution methods along side modelling techniques to improve student outcomes and understanding.
Taught differential and partial-differential equation solving methodology, along with numerical methods.
Graded homework, providing feedback on both performance and room for improvement in modelling and reasoning.
Dynamics
MEMS 255, Dr. Guy Genin and Dr. Jackson Potter
Led office hours 5 hours per week, helping students better understand and model dynamics problems while coaching them through solution methods.
Provided personalized assistance to students, debugging their different approaches and providing a framework to explain how their assumptions and boundary conditions would play out in real life.
Enhanced student conceptual understanding by manipulating parameters in exercises and analyzing how the most effective solution methods change.
Introduction to Electrical Engineering
ESE 230, Dr. Tsitsi Nussinov
Led section of twenty students in tackling complex and creative DC and AC planar circuit problems while exploring multiple solution methods.
Provided feedback on problem sets, assisted in lab instruction, and marked lab reports.
North Broward Preparatory School
Teaching Assistant
Designed and taught curriculum in a fabrication lab summer program to groups of 20 students aged 7-12 for 8 weeks per summer
Tailored course content to enhance students understanding of the basic principles of design and engineering, exercise the scientific method, and develop critical thinking skills.
Encouraged students to push beyond their comfort zones and toward applying new concepts, helping them take ownership of furthering their education.
Independent Tutoring
Mathematics
Tutored students in Algebra 2 Honors through AP Calculus BC, posing theoretical problems to solidify student understanding of underlying concepts.
Physics
Tutored students in undergraduate Physics I and II, generating curriculum to enhance critical thinking and physical modelling skills in students.
Publications & Patents
Iden Kurtaliaj et al., Python tooth–inspired fixation device for enhanced rotator cuff repair. Sci. Adv. 10, eadl5270 (2024). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adl5270
Haomin Yu et al., Expansion Limits of Meshed Split-Thickness Skin Grafts. Acta Materialia, Working Paper Series (2024). DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4880238
Eric Leuthardt et al., Systems, Devices, and Methods for Facilitating Spinal Correction and Fusion Surgery. 23 Nov. 2023.
From Vol 10, Issue 26 of Science Advances.
Projects
Student Coursework Planner & Optimizer
Designed and developed an application to assist students in finding an optimal course schedule.
Application included an API for querying WashU’s online course catalog, factored in user-defined preferences and constraints, and exported users’ optimized schedules to both text and image formats for later reference.
Gerstner Wave Simulator
Designed a simulation and visualization program for superposition of Gerstner waves.
Optimized the computational efficiency of the simulation in MATLAB using parallel processing and algorithmic analysis.