• Building state-of-the-art uncrewed surface vessels for academic research, defense (ISR), and commercial offshore applications.
• Consulting for marine vehicle autonomy and design optimization.

Developed lecture materials and planned field trips for a college-level introductory short course in oceanography.

Led the marine research program, which was responsible for assessing the feasibility of constructing subsea hyperloop transportation systems.

Responsibilities:

• Developed multiple regional ocean models driven by wind, wave, and tidal data.
• Computed recurrance intervals for extreme sea states based on historical data.
• Performed strucutural finite element analysis for various subassemblies.
• Formulated requirements and conducted the initial design of a tubular thermal expansion joint.
• Developed and field-validated a nonlinear heat transfer model for a prototype hyperloop system located outside Las Vegas, NV.

Assisted in the development of a sediment transport model integrating longshore and cross-shore processes for predicting long-term shoreline response to climate change.

Responsibilities:

• Testing & development of handheld contaminant sensor.
• CFD simulation of sediment transport processes.
• Field deployment and retrieval of a benthic microbial fuel cell.