PhD candidate.

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, working with Egemen Kolemen in the Plasma Control Group, joint with PPPL. I work on foundation models for fusion data, the real-time signal pipelines that feed them, and the control systems that turn both into something a tokamak can actually use.

I started the Ph.D. in March 2025 after finishing my M.A. at Princeton MAE. Before that I studied physics and cognitive science at UCLA, founded the American Nuclear Society chapter there, and co-founded the California Neurotech Conference (CNTC).

I'm a 2026 Princeton AI Lab Graduate Student Fellow. I've led a real-time ML control experiment at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility and sped up the ORBIT-GPU plasma simulator by 20× on CUDA. Outside research: TKD, the Scully Food Co-Op, the Anime/Manga club, and tuba.