Over the past few years, I have worked on projects ranging from NASA lunar recycling systems and the OSPREY 6U CubeSat mission concept to control systems, digital twin modeling, and atmospheric sensing payloads.
Led 20 student engineers to a Milestone Round win and two Innovation Awards totaling $125,000 for RECLAIM ($50,000 Milestone plus $75,000 for Prototype and Digital Twin Innovation Awards). Designed a two-chamber metal/plastic microwave recycling system and a pyrolysis proof-of-concept for under $500.
Developed a mission concept for OSPREY, a 6U CubeSat at SDL (NASA–AFRL / UNP MC-4), to identify and geolocate ocean plastics with onboard multispectral imaging. Led ADCS trades, simulated imaging passes in STK, and built a Python Landsat analysis pipeline.
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Restoring and upgrading Penn State's legacy UHF ground station with added S-band capability to support SSPL satellite operations and student training.
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Linked SysML system requirements to a Digital Twin that gathered live pressure and temperature telemetry, then used it to predict RECLAIM behavior in off-nominal and extraterrestrial environments.
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Designed and built an atmospheric volatile gas (pollutant) detection payload for a suborbital rocket as part of SSPL's Student Training Program, including KiCad electrical wiring, flight-hardware integration, and dynamics tracking with GPS, altitude sensors, and an IMU.
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Researched HPM systems for future lunar missions and proposed a centralized microwave network that integrates ISRU and catalysts to recycle plastics into rocket fuel precursors.
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Modeled a 6-DOF robotic arm in Python using DH parameters and NumPy, simulated in Manim, and investigated forward and inverse kinematics, Monte Carlo methods, and a Gaussian mixture model.
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Independently developed a PID speed controller for a DC motor on Arduino in AERSP 304, capturing and analyzing real-time RPM telemetry in MATLAB.
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