Things I've Built

A custom Gymnasium environment that wraps an Aspen Plus simulation of the Haber–Bosch process, exposing operating variables as a continuous action space and energy intensity as the reward signal. Trained PPO and SAC agents with Stable-Baselines3 and compared their convergence behavior on the same task.

The interesting part wasn't the agent — it was the env. Aspen runs slowly and isn't trivially differentiable, so reward shaping and observation normalization mattered more than the choice of algorithm.

Captain of the school robotics team and member of the national team. Led mechanical design and control software for competition robots — drivetrain layout, sensor integration, and autonomous routines.

The transition from pure hardware to embedded firmware to higher-level autonomy is what made me want to study computer engineering rather than just one of the two halves.

Design Engineer and Team Leader for Team YLA in the F1 in Schools / STEM Racing competition. Owned CAD, CFD, and FEA workflows for the car — iterating geometry against aerodynamic and structural targets through dozens of revisions.

Beyond the engineering, leading the team taught me how to make tradeoffs under real deadlines — when to converge, when to keep iterating, when to ship.

Studying how external magnetic fields influence the kinetics of electrocatalytic water splitting, with a focus on the oxygen evolution reaction. Designing and synthesizing ferromagnetic catalysts and benchmarking their performance with and without applied field.

A small overpotential reduction translates directly into lower electricity cost per kilogram of hydrogen — which is what makes green H₂ economically interesting at scale.