Projects

What happens to a device once it leaves the cleanroom and has to work in a system, and how to most efficiently use the energy it generates.

Stanford Solar Car Project Array Team Co-Lead Array & Battery teams Oct 2025 – present

Getting every watt off the array

I work on the Array and Battery teams of Stanford Solar Car, where our goal is to extract as much power from the sun as possible, taking into account factors such as heat, electrical integration, and the fact that it's on a car zooming across a continent.

Characterize Maxeon Gen III cells by outdoor four-wire IV sweep on a Keithley 2461, and analyze 3×6 modules for mismatch loss to inform cell binning and array layout.
Lead infrared and electroluminescence inspection to find hotspots, cracks and interconnect faults; piloted a new encapsulation method for durability and water-ingress resistance.
Build Python tools modelling bypass-diode configurations and temperature-driven efficiency loss, to inform thermal and cooling design for the next-generation array.

Stanford's solar car, its array and sponsor decals lit by
low sun — Azimuth and its array.

An encapsulated solar module on the bench — A module we encapsulated in-house. We are building a new car (the first in over half a decade!!).

Electroluminescence image of a module — Electroluminescence.

Infrared thermography of a module — Infrared thermography.

Battery pack under test — Pack assembly and test.

Sustainable Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises Sep 2025 – present

Saving energy in Stanford's residential buildings

Audited 320 common spaces across 45 buildings and roughly 2,900 lighting elements to map occupancy-sensor coverage, found only 36.9% of spaces had them.
Built an ROI model from the audit data projecting 66,421 kWh and $11,941 in annual savings against $65,650 upfront, a payback of about 5.5 years.
Evaluated vendors and specified hardware for a window-sensor HVAC pilot.

MATSCI 164 Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices Laboratory

Organic transistors and OLEDs

Fabricated bottom-gate PDBT-co-TT organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with a PFBT self-assembled monolayer on the gold contacts, confirmed by goniometry (36.7° to 64.3° contact angle). Extracted threshold voltage and saturation mobility from transfer curves and measured 13% higher mobility, consistent with reduced interfacial trap density.
Built F8BT OLEDs with PEDOT:PSS and PFN-Br injection layers and a 100 nm aluminum cathode evaporated at SNF. Used matched electroluminescence and photoluminescence peaks to attribute an anomalously high turn-on voltage to spin-coating defects rather than interlayer energetics.

Organic thin-film transistor on a test board — OTFT devices.

Course devices on a tray — OLED devices from the class project.

Previously

Wetland Ecosystems Group Stanford Jun 2025 – Jun 2026

Examining drought impacts on wetlands in Louisiana, Maryland and Florida

Tracked wetland change across all three states by remote sensing, with geospatial analysis in Google Earth Engine, ArcGIS and R.
Supported fieldwork in Louisiana.
Processed 150+ samples back on campus by cryomilling, acid digestion, CHN elemental analysis and ICP-OES to get their C:N:P ratios.
Wrote the sample-prep SOP for cryomilling and digestion.
Second author on an AGU abstract.

This was my first research position at Stanford, where I first got hands-on lab and data analysis experience.

Stanford Energy Club with Verne

Composite pressure vessels for cryo-compressed hydrogen

Project work on COPV design considerations for a hydrogen storage startup.