Aerospace engineering · University of Florida
I'm an aerospace engineering master's student focused on launch vehicles, trajectory optimization, aerodynamics, and computational analysis.
01 — Profile
I work across the boundary of analysis and design—using computation to understand trade spaces, test assumptions, and make aerospace systems perform.
02 — Selected work
Focused studies spanning vehicle design, atmospheric flight, numerical methods, and probabilistic modeling.
Optimal Control · Entry Dynamics
Optimized a constrained reusable-launch-vehicle entry trajectory with LGR collocation, maximizing terminal crossrange while satisfying heating, load, and flight-path limits.
Project briefing ↘Finite Elements · Verification
Compared 2D and 3D thermal and structural finite-element models, measuring how mesh density, symmetry, and element order affect convergence, accuracy, and computational cost.
Project briefing ↘Mission Design · Systems Engineering
Designed the technical architecture for a robotic Mars mission, including the interplanetary transfer, 180-day aerobraking campaign, science orbit, and spacecraft structural loads.
Project briefing ↘Experimental Aerodynamics · XFOIL
Designed and tested a 3D-printed NACA 65(2)-415 airfoil to quantify how simulated leading-edge rime ice changes lift, drag, and stall relative to clean and XFOIL baselines.
Project briefing ↘V&V · Uncertainty Quantification
Calibrated competing drag models with Bayesian inference, then used posterior predictive checks to determine which formulation best represents the experimental fall-time data.
Project briefing ↘GNC · NASA Flight Data
Processed NASA SPICE flight products and developed an optical-navigation EKF, zero-effort-miss guidance analysis, and Monte Carlo study around DART's reconstructed terminal approach.
Project briefing ↘Two-stage rocket design · Kriging analysis
Case study 01 — Mission design
As a primary technical contributor, I developed the interplanetary transfer, Mars aerobraking and orbital strategy, and critical spacecraft structures for a multi-vehicle robotic survey mission.
Team systems design · University of Floridaminimum modeled ΔV
Earth-to-Mars transfer
to polar science orbit
cycles vs. 400 required
Built a MATLAB departure-arrival trade space and porkchop plot for the 2028–2029 window, identifying an approximately 250-day minimum-energy transfer.
Defined the highly elliptical capture and 180-day aerobraking campaign leading to a 400 km polar science orbit with greater than 75% surface coverage.
Sized the solar-array boom for peak atmospheric drag, then evaluated bending, shear, fatigue life, and fracture tolerance across the aerobraking campaign.
Case study 02 — Optimal control
I transcribed a nonlinear reusable-launch-vehicle entry problem with single-mesh Legendre-Gauss-Radau collocation, then solved the resulting constrained nonlinear program in MATLAB.
terminal crossrange
relative to GPOPS-II
decision variables
Case study 03 — Finite elements
I compared full, symmetry-reduced, 2D, and 3D finite-element models for steady-state conduction and structural compression, isolating the effects of mesh density, element order, and boundary conditions.
via quarter symmetry
converged exterior peak
quarter-model peak stress
Case study 04 — Experimental aerodynamics
I helped design, fabricate, and test a 3D-printed NACA 65(2)-415 airfoil, comparing the clean configuration with simulated rime ice in a calibrated wind-tunnel experiment and against an XFOIL baseline.
0.968 clean to 0.803 iced
0.474 clean to 0.551 iced
12° clean to 10° iced
Case study 05 — V&V and uncertainty
I used experimental paper-helicopter drop data to select a physics model, quantify aleatory and epistemic uncertainty, calibrate its drag coefficient, and test out-of-sample predictive performance.
linear drag model
posterior samples
3-clip area metric
Case study 06 — Guidance and navigation
I processed NASA's archived DART and Dimorphos SPICE states to reconstruct the final ten minutes of flight, projected the 3D J2000 trajectory into an encounter plane, and built a simulated optical-navigation system around that flight-derived truth.
terminal approach window
median at 10 s cutoff
100-case median
03 — Resume
University of Florida · Expected December 2026
3.95 / 4.00 GPACertificates in Scientific Computing and Control SystemsUniversity of Florida · 2025
Computer Science minorNational Merit Scholar · Dean's ListPython · MATLAB · C++
Abaqus · SolidWorks · LabVIEW
GNC · FEA · Optimal control · V&V / UQ
04 — Capabilities