I earned my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. My research experience began in my sophmore year under Dr. Kulinsky in the BiNoM lab. where I worked on CD microfluidics and gained early experience in academic research and industry collaboration. By my junior year, I shifted my focus to rehabilitation robotics, collaborating with the Robotics & Automation Lab under Dr. McCarthy to design rehabilitation devices for the shoulder and finger in collaboration with medical professionals.

After graduation, I pursued a master's degree to strengthen my robotics expertise before entering the industry, I was awarded the Graduate College Master's Fellowship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I now work in the Monolithic Systems Lab under Dr. Krishnan. My current research focuses on soft and continuum robotics manipulators for industry, medical, and space applications.