Who I am
and why nuclear?

I'm a nuclear engineering undergraduate at Texas A&M, pursuing minors in mathematics and physics. This past summer I've been a researcher at the A&M Cyclotron Institute working on TAMUTRAP, a Penning-trap experiment measuring beta decay to look for physics beyond the Standard Model. It's precise, humbling work, and I've loved every bit of it!

Longer term, I keep coming back to fusion energy. The physics is hard, the engineering harder, and the timeline a bit uncertain, but I find that more motivating than discouraging! It's exactly the kind of problem I think is worth spending a career on.

How I work

When I encounter some physical system, my first instinct is to try to characterize it, whether through instrumentation or intuition. I like to understand the world from as close to first principles as possible, building, deriving, then connecting.

I maintain an Obsidian notes ecosystem that connects physics concepts, engineering projects, and mathematical ideas across disciplines. This website you're reading is the public-facing layer of that ecosystem.