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B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University · Class of 2027 · GPA 3.98 / 4.00 · Minor in Mathematics
Focus: Battery mechanics · FEA · [email protected] · GitHub · LinkedIn
Undergraduate · Mechanical Engineering
I build things that have to survive the real world — rockets, batteries, instruments. Before rockets: a 4WD car and an Arduino trash can that opened itself. The question that keeps me at this desk: how do structures behave at their limits?
Battery mechanics research · Prof. Juner Zhu
2D plane-strain Abaqus/Explicit models of spiral-wound jelly-roll cells — hoop stress building in the innermost turns, up to inward core buckling. An independent study, built end-to-end — validated against published values to ~0.1% on the checked case — then a winding-geometry study.
Project register · 6 entries
This folio is the index. Ten airframes, 2019–2023 — from a water rocket to the Sorbicore design study — two field devices built and run, robot code, an iOS client. The objects on the desk open their own cards directly.
Honors & certificates
Two Chinese patents, a software copyright, and certificates from the Mayor of Boston, the Governor of Massachusetts, the MA State Auditor, the Boston City Council, and the Hangzhou Foreign Affairs Office.
Curriculum vitae
The one-page version, kept warm under the lamp. Seven terms: 4.00 · 3.96 · 4.00 · 3.94 · 4.00 · 4.00 · 4.00 — two A− on the transcript, every other completed grade an A. Read everything on this desk.
Design study · Designer · independent
A 1 m amateur high-power rocket modelled part-by-part as parametric CAD-as-code (ForgeCAD) — 104 runtime checks, conservative predicted apogee 200–250 m. Design-complete, digitally validated — not built or flown.
2019–2023 · ten airframes · Designer & Builder
Ten airframes, 2019–2023, from a 10 m water rocket to a multi-engine vehicle past 100 m — a program that produced two Chinese patents: the multi-engine rocket design, and a wireless launch device (utility model).
Spring 2026 – · Undergraduate Researcher · Prof. Juner Zhu
2D plane-strain Abaqus/Explicit study of spiral-wound lithium-ion jelly-roll cells: a model built end-to-end, validated against published values to ~0.1% on the checked case, then a winding-geometry study with scripted, automated sweeps.
2026 · Independent
Custom skills let a coding agent drive the full Abaqus loop — rebuild, mesh, extract — escalating hard cases to a supervisor model and running 24h+ unattended; built to accelerate the jelly-roll modeling. A public write-up of the workflow (X, Apr 2026) circulated widely (~261K views).
ME 4505 term project · Team lead (of 4) · Prof. Smyser
Late-fall field study of five campus spaces with a self-assembled CO₂ / PM2.5 sensor box — twenty 10-minute sessions; location-mean CO₂ and PM2.5 correlate at r ≈ 0.96 (n = 5, p < 0.01).
GE1501 · Fall 2023 · Team lead · 4-person team
Wearable harness with two Arduino Nano 33 BLE boards monitoring canine heart rate, temperature and activity over Bluetooth — sensors, firmware and 3D-printed enclosure designed from scratch. A first-year design-course prototype, demonstrated on a dog model at the Expo.
2021–2023 · Software team member
Java control code and debugging tools for a competition robot, two FIRST Robotics seasons; sensors and actuators integrated with the mechanical and electrical subteams, debugged under match-time pressure.
Ongoing · iOS Developer
A native iOS/iPadOS chat client (SwiftUI · SwiftData) with an actor-isolated runtime, structured as 16 SwiftPM modules behind hard CI gates — an LLM client built like an instrument. Built fully on the iOS 26 Liquid Glass design language before it was in wide use, with LaTeX / formula rendering.
Deep-dive records · verified or labeled figures · status verbatim
2D plane-strain Abaqus FEA · spiral-wound jelly-roll cell
Simulation predictions · validated against published values · no physical test
Verified Abaqus model parameters
Illustrative disclosure — the instrument’s colormap fields and chart magnitudes are placeholders pending a real Abaqus ODB export; every figure on this sheet is a verified value.
1 m amateur high-power rocket · ForgeCAD
Design complete · digitally validated · not yet built or flown
5-location campus field study · Boston, late fall
Measured field data · small n (5 locations / 20 sessions) · correlation, not causation
dual Arduino Nano 33 BLE wearable · Fall 2023
Working prototype · Fall-2023 first-year design project · demonstrated on a dog model — not a product, not a medical device
Grouped registry · level qualifiers as the record states them
Off the bench: vice-president of an education-equity student union; initiated a left-behind-children program and took the proposal to municipal government; organized the 2023 Boston–Hangzhou youth exchange — a bilingual history play staged at Boston City Hall; host & translator of “Talents Talk”; three-plus years tutoring physics, first invited by a professor.