Experience7
Harvard SEAS 2023 – present Lecturer & Asst. Director of Undergraduate Studies. Teach ES 51 & ES 192; advise capstones.
Boston AI Foundry 2025 – present Taking ideas out of frontier research and finding the ones worth turning into real products.
Handshake AI 2025 – 2026 Expert contributor providing mechanical & systems engineering expertise to evaluate and improve AI model outputs.
Snorkel AI 2024 – 2025 Expert contributor supplying engineering-domain data and evaluations for AI training pipelines.
UA Huntsville 2021 – 2022 Assistant Professor. Taught mechanical design, manufacturing, dynamics, mechanics of materials.
Tennessee Tech, CMR 2018 – 2021 Graduate researcher in functionally graded composites; FEA, simulation, characterization.
PMD Projects 2016 – 2018 Mechanical engineer. HVAC system design, performance simulation, on-site testing.
Skills5
Design & CAD SolidWorks (CSWE), Fusion 360, Onshape, AutoCAD, SpaceClaim.
Analysis ANSYS FEA, fatigue & thermal, tolerance stack-ups, GD&T, DFM / DFA, DoE.
Manufacturing Injection molding, sheet metal, CNC, 3D printing (FFF / SLA / SLS), composites.
ML & Data Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenCV, LangChain / LlamaIndex, SQL.
Tools MATLAB, Docker, AWS, Git, Streamlit, Tableau.
Projects10
Low-Cost Robotic Manipulation 2026 A language-driven pick-and-place system on a $400 SO-101 arm: Whisper, YOLO-World, SmolVLA, and a GQ-CNN verify-before-act gate, reaching 96% task success. Softbot: Autonomous Softball Retrieval Robot 2026 A vision-guided robot that uses YOLO detection to find and collect softballs on a full field, advised from concept to working hardware — covered by the Harvard Gazette. OpenChartMS: Ashby Material Selection Charts 2026 Open-source, browser-based Ashby material-selection charts. A free alternative to Granta EduPack, built for my Harvard ES-192 course. Crack Detection with YOLOv11 2025 Automated crack detection and classification for civil infrastructure (bridges, roads, buildings) using a YOLOv11 object-detection pipeline. Recommendation System with Graph Neural Networks 2025 A personalized movie recommender built with Graph Neural Networks, modeling users and items as a single interaction graph. Predictive Maintenance on NASA Turbofan Data 2025 Remaining-useful-life prediction on NASA's turbofan degradation dataset: time-series modeling for predictive maintenance. Interface Strength Modeling in FGMs 2022 Modeling and experimentally validating interface strength in FFF-printed functionally graded materials, comparing direct, interlocked, and gradient transitions. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing 2022 Doctoral work on low-cost FFF fabrication of multi-material structures with graded properties: design, fabrication, characterization, and multi-scale modeling. Virtual Lab for Engineering Classrooms 2021 An NSF-funded immersive VR lab built in Unreal Engine for engineering and manufacturing education, with design, fabrication, and testing rooms. 3D-Printed Tooling for Lost-Foam Casting 2021 Applied R&D with Flowserve exploring 3D-printed mold patterns as a low-cost alternative to conventional tooling for lost-foam casting. More on GitHub Browse the rest of my projects and experiments.
Research14
Strategic Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing: A Comprehensive Review 2026 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Critical Review on Short Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials Manufactured by Material Extrusion: From Thermal Perspective 2024 Progress in Additive Manufacturing, Volume 10, Pages 783–808 (2025) Opportunities and Limitations of Additive Manufacturing 2023 In Springer Handbook of Additive Manufacturing, pp. 125–143 All publications Browse the full list of 14 papers.
Learn8
ES-51: Computer-Aided Machine Design My Harvard course on mechanism design, CAD, fabrication, and DFx. Syllabus and overview. ES-192: Materials Selection in Mechanical Design My Harvard course on selecting materials by function, cost, and environment using Ashby methods. MIT Deep Learning Course My guide to MIT's open Deep Learning course: structure, content, and why it is a great free AI resource. MIT OpenCourseWare Thousands of free MIT courses across engineering, design, and science. MIT 2.007: Design & Manufacturing MIT's hands-on mechanical design and build course, free online. Modern Robotics (Northwestern) Kevin Lynch's full robotics specialization: kinematics, dynamics, control. Stanford Online Engineering Free and open engineering courses and lectures from Stanford. edX: Robotics & Engineering University robotics, mechatronics, and design courses, audit for free.
Life5
Chess Long games, slow improvement. I study the openings I keep losing to.
Hiking Weekends on New England trails. The longer the climb, the better.
Tennis A reliable way to forget about work for an hour.
Photography Landscapes, and the occasional well-lit prototype.
Cycling My favorite way to think through a stuck design problem.
Blog2
TinyML Object Detection for Mobile Robots May 2025 Developing, optimizing, and deploying a TinyML model for real-time object detection on resource-constrained, microcontroller-powered robots. Scales in Mechanics Education: the M³E Module May 2024 A reflection on how the M³E module helps students connect theory with real-world material behavior using multiscale experimentation.

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