Harvard College, Cambridge MA

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude with Highest Honours in Field

GPA 3.81

Senior Spring 2020

Engineering Design Project II - ES100b: second semester of the engineering capstone project. See here for more detail.

Introduction to Robotics - ES159: coordinate frames and transformations, forward and inverse kinematic solutions to open and closed chain manipulators, the Jacobian, dynamics and control, sensors and actuators, and motion planning. In addition, introduction to computer vision, mobile robots, MEMS and micro-robotics.

Space Science and Engineering: Theory and Application - ESE160: scientific motivation for space missions and the key engineering challenges: core physical concepts necessary to design a launch system, execute orbital transfers, and deliver payloads to planetary surfaces, balancing power, mass, thermal, data transfer and observational requirements in real missions.

Widely Applied Physics (Physics for Future Presidential Advisors) - Physics 125: develop physical intuition and become comfortable with “back of the envelope” calculations. Topics include, but are not limited to: dimensional analysis, scaling laws, fluids, global warming, energy production/use, nuclear power/weapons, health effects of radiation, risk analysis, cosmology, flight, spy satellites, rockets, mechanical design and failure.

HBS Sustainable Cities and Resilient Infrastructure: cities and built environment approach to solving global challenges with innovative solutions: migration as people move to cities, existing and worsening resource scarcity, inability of government to invest ahead to address issues, climate change.

Senior Fall 2019

Engineering Design Project I - ES100a: engineering capstone project, involving both engineering design and quantitative analysis and culminating in a final oral presentation and final report. See here for more detail.

German Literature, Culture, and Society - German 101: examined the major social and political trends and ideas that have informed the literature and culture of the German-speaking countries from the Enlightenment to the present. All discussion, readings and assignments were conducted in German.

International Political Economy - GOV1780: Analysed the interaction of politics and economics in the international arena. International trade, investment, monetary and financial relations, developed, developing, and formerly centrally-planned nations.

HBS Entrepreneurial Failure: Harvard Business School case study method class on why do startups fail and how entrepreneurs can fail better.

HBS Launching Technology Ventures: Harvard Business School case study method class on launching a startup, best practices, validating consumer value proposition, go-to-market strategy, and business model.

Junior Spring 2019

Decision Theory - ES201: supervised learning, ensemble methods and boosting, neural networks, support vector machines, kernel methods, clustering and unsupervised learning, maximum likelihood, graphical models, hidden Markov models, inference methods, and computational learning theory.

Computing Hardware - CS141: combinational and sequential logic; computer architecture; machine code; and altogether the infrastructure and computational framework composing a MIPS processor. 

Quantum Mechanics I - Physics 143a: uncertainty relations; Schrödinger equation; Dirac notation; matrix mechanics; one-dimensional problems including particle in box; tunnelling and harmonic oscillator; angular momentum; hydrogen atom; spin; Pauli principle; time-independent perturbation theory; and scattering.

1000 Years of Listening - Music 1: explored the technical workings of music, and built a vocabulary for analysing music and articulating a response to it; studied music as a cultural phenomenon and the history of listening. 

Junior Fall 2018

Engineering Problem Solving and Design Project - ES96: engineering experience working with clients on real-world problems. Projects provide exposure to problem definition, performance measurement, quantitative analysis, modelling, generation of creative solutions, engineering design trade-offs, and documentation/communication skills. More detail available.

Systems and Control - ES155: feedback systems and control in many areas, including physical, biological, engineering, information, financial, and social science. Linear algebra, the elemental representations of dynamic systems, stability analysis, the design of estimators (e.g., Kalman Filter) and feedback controllers (e.g., PID and Optimal Controller).

Introduction to Electronic and Photonic Devices - ES173: physical principles underlying semiconductor devices: electrons and holes in semiconductors , energies and bandgaps, transport properties of electrons and holes, p-n junctions, transistors, light emitting diodes, lasers, solar cells and thermoelectric devices.

Case Studies in Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives - SW25: examined a collection of global health problems rooted in rapidly changing social structures that transcend national and other administrative boundaries. Explored case studies (addressing AIDS, tuberculosis, mental illness, ebola, cholera, and other topics) and a diverse literature (including epidemiology, anthropology, history, and clinical medicine).

Sophomore Spring 2018

Probability with Engineering Applications - ES150: random variables, distributions and densities, conditional expectations, Bayes' rules, laws of large numbers, central limit theorems, Markov chains, Bayesian statistical inferences and parameter estimations

Signals and Systems - ES156: Time and frequency domain representations and analysis of signals and systems. Convolution and linear input-output systems in continuous and discrete time. Fourier transforms and Fourier series for continuous- and discrete-time signals. Laplace and Z transforms. Analog and digital filtering. Modulation. Sampling. FFT. Applications in circuit analysis, communication, control, and computing.

Engineering Quantum Mechanics - ES170: hybrid of lectures on theory, state-of-the-art computational methods in quantum simulations using IBM Q - an open access quantum computer. Topics included periodic potentials and the tight-binding approach, quantizing vibrations in solids, spin matrices and an introduction to qubits.

Technology and Policy - IGA528 (graduate): used three contrasting case studies to explore the strengths and limits of policy-analytic tools in domains where science and technology play important roles: (i) U.S. air pollution control regulation, (ii) solar geo-engineering, and (iii) human germ-line editing. Peer assessment of short essays and structured in-class debates.

Sophomore Fall 2017

Introduction to Folklore and Mythology - CB16: surveys major forms of folklore (e.g., myths, legends, epics, beliefs, rituals, festivals) and the theoretical approaches used to understand and interpret texts drawn from the world of traditional expression and ritualised behaviour.

Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology - LS1a: intermolecular interactions, thermodynamics, acidity, kinetics and chemical reaction mechanisms, the central dogma, protein trafficking, cell signalling, enzyme catalysis, and drug design.

Linear Algebra and Differential Equations - MATH21b

Electromagnetism and Statistical Physics from an Analytic, Numerical and Experimental Perspective - PS12b: electrostatics and magneto-statics, electromagnetic fields, and optics. Uses a combination of analytic and numerical methods to understand physical systems, to analyse experimental data, and to compare data to models. 

Freshman Spring 2017

Joy of Electronics - ES52: Fundamentals of circuit design and breadboard construction. Project-based class, where we constructed six different circuits. Worked with a partner to construct a wireless 'teaching fellow button' for a final project. More detail available.

Mechanics from an Analytical, Numerical & Experimental Perspective - PS12a: Newtonian mechanics, numerical methods, basic experimental statistics, computational analysis. 

Multivariable Calculus - MATH21a

Human Rights as a History - Expository Writing 20: Harvard's required freshman writing course. Read and analysed contemporary and historical works about human rights. Final paper explored the nature of the right to self-determination as seen through the lens of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

Freshman Fall 2017

Introduction to Computer Science - CS50: Scratch, C, Python, web technologies and frameworks (HTML, javascript, CSS, Flask), algorithms, data structures. Worked in a team of three to build a dorm-sharing platform in 4 weeks for the final project, using an SQL database, Flask server and Twilio for texting users.

Building a Living Cell Brick by Brick: Explored the use of nanopore sequencing methods using both a custom rig and the Oxford Nanopore MinIon sequencer. Final project involved determining which species of bacteria were present in a sample of Kimchi by comparing the sequencer output to the National Center for Biotechnology Information database.

Calculus, Series and Differential Equations - MATH1B.

Morality and the Good Life - PHIL14: read contemporary and traditional philosophers on theories of well-being and of morality and conducted philosophical reasoning by dissecting and evaluating formal arguments. Final paper was a defence of a modified version of cultural relativism - the idea that moral facts are determined by the culture in which we grow up.

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