Designs it, builds it, and leads the team that ships it.
Mechanical engineering student with hands-on experience in embedded systems, automation, CAD and multidisciplinary design. Selected for NASA RASC-AL 2026 on a nationally competitive university team, and looking toward biomedical engineering and R&D.
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Research & technical writing
Asking why, then checking.
The technical papers and proposals behind my engineering projects.
Project PETAL
NASA RASC-AL · 2026 · Technical paper
PETAL: Power and Energy Transfer Architecture for the Lunar Surface
Our 30-page competition paper on a fault-tolerant power grid for a lunar South Pole base, covering shared-shielding reactor arrays, a sintered-regolith thermal vault, a 10 kV HVDC backbone, trade studies, a risk register and lifecycle cost.
Sizing a Curved-Spoke Tri-Wheel for Stair Climbing
Design proposal deriving tri-spoke wheel radii from measured stair geometry, with a free-body analysis of the torque needed to climb a 31.9° stair incline.
Mechanical engineering student at UH Mānoa, aiming for biomedical engineering and research & development.
At the NASA RASC-AL Forum, 2026
At a glance
Based in
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Studying
Mechanical Engineering, UH Mānoa · Class of 2028
GPA
3.76
Interested in
Biomedical engineering, R&D, assistive devices
Languages
English, Japanese (basic)
I like problems that end with a person using the thing.
I started engineering at UBC, where team projects taught me the design process: talk to the people who'll use it, sketch a lot, prototype cheap, and score the options honestly. My favorite was an adaptive hose nozzle for a client with limited hand mobility, because the measure of success was whether he could use it on his own.
At UH Mānoa I've taken on bigger roles. I was Subsystems Lead for systems and power architecture on our NASA RASC-AL team, one of 14 finalists nationwide. Now I'm project manager for a five-person team building an automated egg peeler for a local musubi shop, while designing a stair-climbing robot in ME 213.
That mix of mechanical design, electronics and people is why I'm drawn to biomedical engineering and R&D: devices that have to work reliably for real patients, built by teams that test everything.
Outside class I tinker with Raspberry Pi projects, write Python games, and teach kids to code.
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