About

I’m a senior at Duke, studying biomedical engineering. What I keep gravitating toward is projects where the mechanical side and the electronics side turn out to be the same problem.

The lightbox on this site is the clearest example. I drew the schematic, laid out the board, had it fabricated, then modeled an enclosure in Onshape around the hole pattern of the board I’d just designed. The pacemaker is a different kind of problem — an analog front end and firmware that has to hear a heartbeat before it’s allowed to pace one.

In 2025 I spent a summer on the clinical side of imaging: field service on X-ray and CT systems across hospitals for the Turkish Ministry of Health, then detector physics at Canon Medical. Watching how those machines get checked is most of where my interest in measurement comes from.

The part I’ve learned the most from is when things don’t work. The lightbox came back from fabrication and wouldn’t switch one of its LEDs, and the fault was mine — I’d routed a MOSFET’s source to +5 V instead of ground, so it could never turn on. I wrote it up rather than quietly fixing it, and I’ve kept the same habit here: the numbers on this site are ones I measured, and where something is untested or still in progress, it says so.

I’m looking for engineering roles now. No strong preference on the title — I’d like to stay close to hardware and work on things I can measure.