Education

• Princeton University, M.A. in Physics 2022
• DOD NDSEG Fellowship2020 - 2022
• University of California Berkeley, B.A. in Physics 2019
• Pomerantz Award - Scholarship for excellent academic standing in physics2018/19 & 2019/20
• Physics Honors

Experience

• Research in UC Berkeley Crommie Group 2017 - 2020
• Condensed matter physics research on atomic scale behavior in 2D materials
• Coauthored 2 research papers
• Personal Projects (C++)
  • Doodlebug2020
  • Personal infinite canvas drawing program created from scratch
  • System based directly on stroke data allowing for rescaling with no pixelation or bluring
  • Voxel Engine2022 - 2023
  • GPU accelerated falling sand simulation with OpenGL compute shaders
  • Diffuse dynamic global illumination ray tracing
  • 3D destructable rigid body simulation
  • Primordialis2023 - Present
  • Action roguelike game where you create a primordial sea creature
  • Highly granular system for player creature customization
  • Custom multithreaded PBD 2D soft body simulation
  • Coming to Steam soon!
  • Game Jams
  • 7DFPS - Created an fps in 7 days using my custom voxel engine2022
  • Ludum Dare 52, 53, 54, & 55 - Created games from scratch in 48 hours2023

Teaching

• UC Berkeley Physics 8A Undergraduate Student Instructor2019
• Helped grade and teach introductory physics course
• Journal Of Visual Experiments2018-2019
• Contracted to design and perform 4 different experiments to demonstrate concepts for introductory physics students
• Splash at Berkeley - How to Time Travel2019
• Volunteered to teach a one-off class to high-school students on a topic of choice
• Explained brief overview of special & general relativity and relation to time travel

Skills

• Custom Game Engine Development
• 3D and 2D Graphics & Shaders - OpenGL/WebGL, Vulkan
• Physics Simulation, including rigid bodies, soft bodies, fluid simulation, inverse-kinematics, and particle systems
• Procedural Generation
• SIMD & Multithreading Optimization
• 3D Modeling & CAD
• Programming languages: C, C++, GLSL, x86 Asm, GDScript, Java, Lua, Lisp, Python, MATLAB, Mathematica, LaTeX, LabVIEW, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Personal Interests

Robotics
• FIRST Robotics - high school team robotics competition2013-2016
• World Championship2015
• Volunteered after graduation to help coordinate various events2016-2020
• Robobears - UC Berkeley combat robotics club2016-2020
• Hosted an inter-collegate combat robotics competition2019
• Designed and built combat robots both alone and with a team
Gaming
• Won $500 in a Super Auto Pets tournament
• 2nd place in 2023 & 1st place in 2024 of the annual Opus Magnum tournament
• Created various mods and reversed engineered tools for Noita