What I've worked on and what it taught me.
2026–Present · Chapel Hill, NC
Technical Chair at Carolina's premier student organization for AI and machine learning. Lead the team building SkyJEPA, a JEPA-style latent world model that learns from both camera frames and flight telemetry to control a custom quadrotor's motors, with the goal of zero-shot sim-to-real transfer. Own the technical roadmap, from an in-house drone build on PX4 to the custom simulation environment that generates our training data.
Summer 2026 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Worked directly with the Lead Scientist at Boomitra, an Earthshot Prize winner that pays farmers for carbon stored in their soil. Audited carbon credit issuance across Latin America with a Python pipeline that extracted data from ~200 project files. Built analysis tools and ran zonal statistics on ERA5-Land climate rasters to find what drives soil carbon sequestration; one key finding updated the weights of Boomitra's internal model.
2026 · Chapel Hill, NC
Teach COMP110, UNC's introductory computer science course. Run lab sections and office hours, walking first-years through how to reason about programs before writing them.
2026 · Chapel Hill, NC
Inaugural Vice-President of Professional Development for Carolina's first and premier engineering club, associated with the Department of Applied Physical Sciences. Organized career workshops with Tesla, engineering challenges with RTP companies, and secured funding for the club.
2025 · Baltimore, MD
Studied how Baltimore's nonprofits navigate the city's permitting and grantmaking systems when running Education Capital Projects. Sat down with 47 nonprofit directors, grant officers, and city officials; ran sentiment analysis on the transcripts; and wrote the findings up for the foundation and its partners at France-Merrick, Weinberg, and Abell — collectively stewarding over $4B in AUM.
2023–2024 · Toronto, Canada
Worked with IKEA on the future of urban mobility (how to design products for a world where more people live without cars) and with CAE on where their simulator business should go next. Built the analysis, wrote the decks, and walked C-suite leadership at both companies through the recommendations.
2022–2024 · Lisbon · Austin · Toronto
Presented my technical work and offered perspective on where technology is headed at WebSummit Lisbon, SXSW, Microsoft's Canadian HQ, and other conferences. Walked audiences of founders, operators, and researchers through the projects I'd built and the implications of the underlying technology for the decade ahead.
2022 · Toronto, Canada
Sourced deal flow across healthcare and fintech, driving 200+ new leads into the investment funnel. Mapped and connected 50+ Canadian family offices and pension funds to two general partners as TCW raised capital for its next round of investments.