Electrical Engineer / Circuit Designer
Ranger category, X Academy Hephaestus Robotics. Custom-designed the PCBs for the ROV's internal electronics; technical report writing and circuitry.
2025
3rd at ROV Worlds, deep learning research, and a software internship.
Awards & Honors
Science Fair
1st Place, Computer Science
Santa Cruz County Science Fair
International
Exceptional Genius Award
Genius Olympiad
Science Fair
Outstanding Electrotechnology & $100 Award
IEEE and the Keet Family
ISEF
Qualified Observer
International Science and Engineering Fair
State
CSEF Qualified Participant
California State Science & Engineering Fair
Robotics
3rd Place, MATE ROV World Championship
Alpena, Michigan, USA.
1st Place, MATE Northern California Regional
Watsonville, CA.
Projects
Using Deep Learning AI to Enable the Safety of Self-Driving Cars
Compared CNN architectures for road sign classification — ResNet-50 hit 77% accuracy versus 23% for VGG-16, across 3,530 training and 638 testing images in 14 categories.
Also this year
Software Intern, Karr Company
Online internship working on the backend of a traffic violation app.
YouthServe
60 hours of environmental clean-ups, graffiti removal, and food bank sorting around Santa Cruz.