I study bioengineering and business at Berkeley M.E.T. Prev. at Mayo Clinic, Berkeley College of Optometry, TinEye. Now building the WHOOP for 16 billion eyes.
Toshiba ExploraVision1st of 3,000 teams, US and Canada
INTL
Conrad Innovation Challenge8th of 20,000
INTL
NASA / CSA Space Apps Hackathon3rd of 1,300, only high school team in the top three
INTL
World Debate & Public Speaking ChampionshipsFinalist, top 10 of 120 from 12 countries
INTL
Canada International Youth Public Speaking Contest1st of 60 across the US and Canada
INTL
DECA International Career Development Conference5th in virtual business challenge, entrepreneurship
INTL
Canadian Astronomy & Astrophysics OlympiadBronze, senior and junior categories
NATIONAL
AIME QualifierTop 2.5% of AMC 10 worldwide
INTL
Founder · 2024 to now
GlaucoNova Labs
Berkeley, CA · VC backed medical device startup
My mom lost vision in one eye to a retinal vein occlusion after two misdiagnoses. Glaucoma patients get checked every six months, and 20% still go blind. That gap is what the company exists to close.
Wrote the C++ firmware, designed the PCB, and fused LSTM and RNN diagnostic models into a Firebase synced React dashboard physicians can read in real time.
92% accuracy against clinical tonometry at 95% lower cost. Patented.
Raised $33K pre-seed for in vitro testing at Berkeley College of Optometry. Soon to be in a clinical study on n=50 patients, FDA pre-submission in progress.
Signed LOIs from 348 physicians and 7 distributors including Target, Walmart, LensCrafters, and Warby Parker. $168K of purchase intent at $299 a unit.
Built multimodal networks (autoencoders, LSTMs, transformer agents) that read 64 acoustic and linguistic features from voice recordings to flag early Alzheimer's from a phone. 88% accuracy.
Engineered HIPAA compliant clinical data pipelines across 1,500 patients during a fully funded on site fellowship. Lived on campus, worked with patients directly.
First author with three MD/PhDs on ML classification of motor speech disorders, ALS, apraxia, dysarthria, and healthy speech. 86% AUC across 160 users.
Ran brain age regression models for dementia risk screening, and built generative audio models using EnCodec and CLAP derivatives to synthesize disorder specific speech for augmentation.
Contract · Aug to Dec 2025
Blue Origin
San Francisco, CA · Orbital data center technical strategy
Designed a space based AI data center architecture projecting $1B+ free cash flow by 2030.
Specced a 105K GPU and TPU network with 1 to 4ms latency, 95% lower than terrestrial alternatives, plus thermal and radiation dissipation cutting cooling cost 88%.
Built the ten year revenue model: 45%+ EBITDA by 2030 at 80% capacity utilization.
Presented the business model, R&D feasibility, pricing, and cloud partnership strategy to the New Glenn strategy team.
Engineer · 2022 to 2023
TinEye
Toronto, Canada · Series B haptics device startup
One of four founding developers on haptic gloves and vests that pair with a LiDAR headset so blind users can navigate by touch.
Trained computer vision models with TF-Lite for on edge inference: 96% mAP at 30ms latency, no cloud dependency.
Designed the two layer PCB alongside a team of ten engineers, and learned the process for filing design patents.
Ran 20+ customer interviews at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and reported findings straight to the CEO and tech team.
Researcher · Summer 2023
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · Abramson Cancer Center
Proposed a lab initiative on nanoparticle based controlled delivery of proteins and antimicrobial agents to treat subglottic stenosis, an airway fibrosis in newborns.
Ran ELISA assays, polymer synthesis, in vitro cell cultures, and in vivo testing on six mouse models. Sourced $2K in consumables and wrote the experimental roadmap.
Presented findings to 40+ UPenn bioengineering faculty at the annual symposium.
The tissue engineering I learned here is what let me mimic human eye tissue to bench test GlaucoGlasses a year later.
Research assistant · 2022 to 2023
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada · Cosmology Lab
Analyzed electromagnetic radiation from galaxy clusters and intergalactic media using the university observatory's data.
Built deep learning classifiers for Faraday spectra, improving baseline accuracy by 14%.
Ran the literature review and proposed a follow on project on polarization patterns in active galactic nuclei.
This is also how I ended up at the National Astronomy Olympiad training camp, and then founding my school's astronomy society.
Hardware · Patented · In trials
GlaucoGlasses
Ultrasound wearable for continuous eye pressure monitoring
Glaucoma patients get one pressure check every six months. Spikes happen in between, and 20% go blind despite years of follow ups. These glasses take a reading at home, continuously.
92% accuracy against clinical tonometry, 95% cheaper than existing devices, $299 a unit.
I wrote the C++ firmware, designed the board, and trained the LSTM and RNN models that predict retinal damage from pressure trends.
Readings sync through Firebase to a React dashboard so a physician sees the trend without an office visit.
C++ firmwareUltrasound biosensingLSTM / RNNPCB designReactFirebase
Farms are sampled by hand, a few spots at a time. This drone lands, drops an electrode on a spool, reads pH, moisture, and salinity, then flies to the next point.
0.45 kg ESP32 based UAV with a 3D printed chassis I designed and printed.
Wi-Fi telemetry through Firebase at 500ms latency, streaming readings live.
Custom neural network at 98.4% accuracy on crop stress and water content, surfaced through a Claude agent powered interface.
Subglottic stenosis is a fibrotic narrowing of the upper airway in newborns. Current treatment is repeat surgery. This is a drug that stays where you put it instead.
Engineered collagen binding nanoparticles from PLGA, encapsulating bFGF and IL-10 for sustained release at the fibrosis site.
Ran ELISA, polymer synthesis, in vitro cultures, and in vivo testing on six mouse models under Dr. Wattenbarger.
Published the proposal and presented to 40+ UPenn bioengineering faculty at the Biotechnology Symposium.
PLGA nanoparticlesELISAPolymer synthesisIn vivo testingCell culture
Turns NASA and CSA stellar luminosity and radiation datasets into sound, so researchers can hear structure in data they would otherwise have to plot and squint at.
Trained computer vision models on real time audio and video to speed up deep space analysis, integrated into a web hosted tool.
Led a team of six. We were the only high school team in the country to place top three.
Computer visionNASA open dataAudio synthesisWeb app