CV
Professional Experience
Consulting Analyst
[Climate risk hedge fund] Research, thesis generation, trade design.
Rock Summer Fellow
[Entrepreneurship fellowship] Testing theses in AI for grid planning, cooling for labor, and grid undergrounding.
Engineer
[Superconducting power transmission] Responsible for design of all superconducting components (published) and selection of other cable core materials: COMSOL, Python. Contributed to the techno-economic model and to industry publications. Led VEIR's ARPA-E project and presented to John Podesta. ARPA-E reviewer. The company scaled from 14 to 60 during my tenure.
Consulting Analyst
[Seed/Series A investment, computing hardware] Wrote several investment memos (~20 pages each) and decks on completed and prospective investments. FPGA and optical comb background research.
Student Researcher
[Cleantech project finance] Grid-scale cost modeling of low-carbon natural gas plants for ARPA-E (FLECCS program) with Princeton/MITei's GenX model; Julia.
Investment Intern
[Seed/Series A investment (~USD150M Fund V), sector agnostic] Sourcing, due diligence, and AR sector research.
Computational Physics Intern
[Nuclear energy] Pre/post-processing of α radiation codes on NERSC (Cori Supercomputer): Python. α particles (helium nuclei), products of the fusion reaction, are a primary radiative load inside the reactor, dictating wall design.
Parallelized electromagnet simulation/analysis codes. Magnet design is Commonwealth's differentiating factor: high-temperature superconductors → higher magnetic field → smaller, cheaper reactor.
Software and Business Development Intern
[Compliant medical software] Mobile SDK development; identified SDK features to outsource and facilitated negotiations; produced medical device compliance documentation (JAMA), project structures (JIRA), and market research stacks. BrightInsight scaled from 80 to 200 employees and raised a $101M Series C; learned via frequent discussions with C level.
Engineering and Strategy Intern
[Autonomous vehicle sensors] Improved rain and retroreflector (road sign) performance of thousands of LIDAR units via SDK development.
Prepared market/strategy decks on the autonomous vehicle industry: Tesla's strategy, competition posed by image processing companies, and methods of integration into Baidu Apollo, among others.
Composites Intern
[UAS] Aided in computer modeling and production of a seven-meter, carbon fiber and Kevlar blended-body UAV (see photograph).
Modeling Intern
Wrote MATLAB scripts to calculate optimal (predominantly quietest) overland flight paths from atmospheric data for low-boom supersonic aircraft, in a joint project with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works (X-59).
Education
Harvard University
Coursework:
- Harvard: Complex and Fourier Analysis, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
- MIT: Reinforcement Learning, Nuclear Fusion Device Physics, Nuclear Fusion Device Engineering, Nuclear Fission Reactor Physics
- HBS: Corporate Finance I & II, Accounting and Control Systems, PE Finance, Real Estate PE, Law of Management and Entrepreneurship
- HLS: Corporations
Princeton University
Leadership: Director of Partnerships, Prospect Student Ventures (2020 – 2022): VC partnerships for pro bono work, allocating ~$100K in grants to founders in the Princeton community.
Coursework:
- Engineering: Space System Design, Microprocessors, Mechanical Design/Fabrication, Fluid Dynamics, etc.
- Applied Math: Orbital Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Computing, Quantum Mechanics, E&M, Classical Mechanics, Machine Learning, Control Systems, Probability & Stochastic Systems, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus
- Finance/Economics: Industrial Organization, Portfolio Theory, Fintech, Energy System Economics, VC
Skills
COMSOL, Mathematica, LaTeX, Python (+TF/Keras, MPI), JIRA, JAMA, MATLAB, STK, PTC Creo, Autodesk products.