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BS Mechanical Engineering · CS Minor · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Dec 2027

Structural analysis, machine design, and simulation, with the assumptions, load cases, and numbers behind each result.

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I am a mechanical engineering student at the University of Illinois, drawn to the point where analysis meets hardware: sizing a part from its worst-case load, proving a simulation result is real before I trust it, and carrying a design through to something that can actually be built. My work spans vehicle structures, production tooling, and applied machine learning for manufacturing.

I currently lead the suspension and brakes subsystem on Illini EV Concept, and I have designed production hardware at Volvo Construction Equipment and Schindler. My interests sit in mechanical systems, vehicle engineering, and manufacturing, and I like problems where the analysis and the hardware both have to be right.

CAD & Analysis

SOLIDWORKS & Simulation
Creo Parametric & Simulate
Fusion 360
Static structural FEA · Modal
Mesh convergence · GD&T

Programming

Python · PyTorch · Salabim
MATLAB / Simulink · C++
Grad-CAM · transfer learning

Manufacturing

Manual mill · lathe · waterjet
Sheet metal · FDM printing
DFM · Taguchi & LHC DoE

Selected work
Motorized rotation fixture CAD assembly
01 · MACHINE DESIGN

Motorized 180° Rotation Fixture

A powered fixture I designed end to end at Volvo CE to rotate and hold a 40 kg hydraulic joint on the assembly line, from concept through a full drivetrain and welded frame.

Torque 184 N·mMargin 1.30×
Casting defect inspection dashboard
02 · MACHINE LEARNING

Casting Defect Inspection System

An image classifier I built solo to flag defective castings, with an honest look at the severity-scoring problem that classical vision couldn't solve.

Test acc. 96%PyTorch
Front knuckle von Mises stress plot
03 · SUSPENSION DESIGN

Knuckle Mounting Brackets

The control-arm mounting brackets I designed on an EV front knuckle, sized for the corner's load path and validated across three load cases in SOLIDWORKS.

6061-T63 load cases
Sheet metal fan bracket
04 · MACHINE DESIGN & CAE

Fan-Mount Bracket & Modal Analysis

A sheet-metal bracket for a raised elevator fan, checked against the fan's own excitation frequency to rule out resonance.

1st mode 2,310 Hzvs 35 Hz