About Me

I am a high school senior at Clayton-Bradley Academy (CBA). I am the current president of the National Honor Society chapter at CBA and chair of CBA Student Success, a student-led tutoring organization run by the NHS.

This fall, I will be beginning my college journey at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I plan to pursue either dual degrees in Civil Engineering and Physics or a degree in Civil Engineering with (a) minor(s) in Climate Change and/or Earth and Planetary Science or Geochemistry. I am excited by the emerging nexus I see between these fields, particularly in applying quantum computation and advanced computer simulations to civil engineering problems such as large-scale fluid and atmospheric physics, transport optimization problems, the urban thermal environment, and more. The intersection of these fields will also allow us to anticipate and adapt to the effects of climate change and consider how we could someday become an interplanetary species. But as someone who is interested in such a wide array of different topics, I am excited to have the opportunity to pursue more than one path, building on my interests and leaving a lot of doors open for myself in the future.

I intend to go to graduate school to pursue a PhD in Civil or Environmental Engineering and then work in a research setting, most likely in a national laboratory, private industry, or an academic research environment. I want to focus my research on environmental aspects of infrastructure such as decarbonization, sustainability, resiliency, and expansion of water, sanitation, and hygiene as well as on smart cities, infrastructure simulation, and cyber-physical systems. I would also love to apply my knowledge in Civil Engineering to research on interplanetary colonization focusing on how the design of utilities such as water and sanitation systems will need to be adapted. I am curious about how building materials could be obtained or produced on the surface of other planets, and how concepts like bearing capacity would be affected by different surface and gravitational conditions. Civil Engineering excites me because of the large opportunity for innovation moving forward.