Computer Engineering & Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
I am interested in power electronics, digital design, and firmware. I've built GaN gate-drive circuits in a research lab, FPGA-controlled robots, and embedded systems running FreeRTOS.
I'm a rising junior at UW–Madison studying Computer Engineering and Computer Science. I enjoy working on both hardware and software: I've designed high-frequency gate-drive circuits for GaN power devices, laid out PCBs in Altium, and written embedded C and SystemVerilog for projects such as an autonomous maze-solving robot and a two-player FreeRTOS game. I recently wrapped up a research internship at UW-Madison's Wide-Bandgap Materials and Devices Lab, and I'll be continuing that research as an undergraduate throughout the school year while also working with Badger Solar Racing's Low Voltage team.
Undergraduate Researcher, Wide-Bandgap Materials and Devices Lab
Designed a sub-10ns optically isolated gate drive for GaN HEMTs, modeling phototransistor switching in LTSpice and laying out chip-on-board PCBs in Altium to minimize parasitic inductance.
Presented this work at the 2026 SPARK poster symposium and received the Complex Concepts Communicator Award for clarity in explaining the research to peers and faculty.
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Academic Project
An autonomous robot that navigates a prebuilt physical maze, fusing gyroscope and IR sensor data to calculate heading and wall distance for PID motor control. Logic was verified in ModelSim and synthesized to an FPGA with Synopsys Design Compiler.
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A full two-player implementation of Battleship in C using FreeRTOS on an Infineon microcontroller. Built joystick- and IMU-driven controls for board navigation, drove an LCD display and I/O-expander-based LED indicators over SPI and I2C, and handled real-time interboard synchronization over UART for the two-player game state.
Source is private per university course policy — happy to walk through the code directly.
Low Voltage Team Member, Badger Solar Racing
Redesigned the car's lighting control board in Altium, adding an E-Fuse and UVLO protection to improve reliability, then hand-assembled and soldered the boards. Collaborated with the firmware team on the CAN communication protocol linking the board into the rest of the car.
Badger Solar Racing →SystemVerilog, Verilog, C, Java, MATLAB
Altium Designer, LTSpice, ModelSim, Synopsys Design Compiler, Quartus
SPI, I2C, UART, CAN Bus, FreeRTOS, Oscilloscopes