Projects

Projects / Interests

UCSC Electric Vehicle R&D Collective

Founding Member /Fall 2014-present
The collective is a group of grad and undergrad students and industry professionals who are building electronic vehicles for use
at our university.

Projects we are working on include:

  • Retrofitting a donated early prototype electric vehicle
    (Dagne)
  • Updating UCSC’s electric maintenance fleet from lead acid to lithium ion batteries
  • Exploring the use of supercapacitors for power storage, creating a solar charging station
  • Designing and building an electric vehicle to compete in Formula SAE Electric competitions.

I organized our petition drive and met with university administration on behalf of the team; we are now allowed to fundraise and use space on campus.
I took the initiative to organize the club into effective, task-centered teams. We are currently seeking additional industry sponsors and networking with teams at other universities.
I also work on the electrical and mechanical engineering teams of the Dagne Retrofit Project.

eBay, Inc.

Intern /Summer 2013
Participated in user testing and wrote competitive analysis reports during the beta phase of eBay’s Collections feature; participated in user experience and site interaction testing; performed exploratory testing and QA of web pages.

First prize, KQED Youth Media Festival 2012

high school division, for our team’s film, Restricted.
You can see the film here.

Circus / Outdoors

Flying trapeze, aerial silks, hiking, climbing, kayaking, piloting drones.