B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University

PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The California Institute of Technology

Interested in designing tools and methods to interact with unknown planetary surfaces, and sampling them for scientific analysis.

• Robotic Systems  | Manipulation And Sampling Systems

• Testbeds  
• sample acquisition  
• planetary sampling  
• Design of Experiments  
• Robotics  

• NASA Award | NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Award | For exceptional achievement in creating a data-driven hardware development process for the Mars 2020 sampling system. (2022)