CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) — Santa Cruz, CA
Drone Researcher | June 2026 – Sep 2026Designing custom 3D-printed multicopters, wiring onboard electronics, and conducting autonomous flight research with an FAA Part 107 remote pilot license. Researched virtual reality applications for drone telemetry visualization and flight planning.
UCSC Institute of Particle Physics (SCIPP) — Santa Cruz, CA
Undergraduate Researcher | June 2025 – PresentSimulating front-end electronics in LTspice for proton beam diagnostics at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL). Programming RP2040 microcontrollers in C and scripting automated Python test suites in Linux.
UC Santa Cruz Quantum Computing — Santa Cruz, CA
Vice President / Researcher | August 2025 – PresentLeading research in Position-Based Quantum Cryptography (PBQC) to develop secure authentication protocols while collaborating across UC campuses and the Quantum Coalition.
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Engineering Peer Tutor | Sept 2025 – PresentMentoring undergraduate engineering students weekly on digital logic, CMOS circuit design, Boolean algebra, and RISC-V computer architecture.
U•MATTR — Volunteer
August 2023 – March 2024Redesigned the nonprofit’s front-end web presence with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, while coordinating health awareness outreach across multiple campus chapters.