I am a Hope Street Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wilhelmus Lab at Brown University, and a Visiting Postdoc at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I recently completed my PhD in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech, working with Prof. John Dabiri. I completed my B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia in 2019 and obtained my M.S. in Aeronautics at Caltech in 2020. I am happy to talk about research, potential collaborations, or faculty position openings!

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My research focuses on enabling widespread autonomous ocean exploration by harnessing the principles behind aquatic animal locomotion, sensing, and navigation. I enjoy taking a multi-disciplinary approach involving fundamental fluid mechanics, control theory, machine learning algorithms, and scratch-built autonomous robotic platforms. My undergraduate research, advised by Prof. Dan Quinn at the University of Virginia, investigated the maneuverability of flapping propulsion. My doctoral research Caltech with Prof. John Dabiri studied flow-based navigation in both simulated and robotic settings. My current research studies robotic metachronal (i.e. shrimp-inspired) propulsion with Prof. Monica Wilhelmus for ocean exploration. Using bio-inspired robotics, I hope to contribute to our ability to measure and explore global-scale fluid flows.