About Me

I am a high school graduate from Clayton-Bradley Academy (CBA). I am the former president of the National Honor Society chapter at CBA and former chair of CBA Student Success, a student-led tutoring organization run by the NHS. This fall, I began my college journey at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where I am pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering with Environmental and Water Resources concentrations and a minor in mathematics.

I am excited by the emerging nexus I see between these fields, particularly in applying advanced computer simulations and quantum computation to modeling civil engineering problems in areas such as fluid and atmospheric physics, geotechnics, sanitation, environmental chemistry, and network optimization, as well as considering how emerging infrastructural demands in climate resiliency and space exploration may be met. My current research focuses on network modeling.

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 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 fluid transfer and bearing capacity would be affected by different surface and gravitational conditions. Civil Engineering excites me because of the large opportunity for innovation moving forward.