Community
The people who make the science possible.
I care as much about the communities around research as I do about the research itself. Across Penn, I help build the clubs, mentorship structures, and student networks that connect people, open doors, and make ambitious, interdisciplinary work possible.
Leadership & Community Building
Founder-led · President
SEED — Sustainable Engineering for Environmental Design
SEED is a new club at Penn built on a simple idea: the projects that change the world need people from every corner of engineering working together. We find and pitch real, ambitious projects, then connect students across disciplines to take them on — someone who models fluids and runs simulations, someone hands-on who wires the electronics, someone who builds the software front-to-back — and give them a place to collaborate.
Our pilot was the year-long cooling-tower water-recovery project — exactly the kind of interdisciplinary, real-world effort SEED exists to make happen. The vision is to be the connective tissue between domains: a home for engineers who want their work to matter, and who do their best work alongside people who think differently than they do.
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SEED team / project
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SEED event / collaboration
VIPER Student Board
President
Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research · May 2025 – Present
- Lead a board of nine student leaders organizing social, academic, and professional-development opportunities for dual-degree students across the VIPER program.
- Advance community-building by bringing in guest speakers, promoting campus energy and sustainability events, and building structured mentorship that connects class years and the growing VIPER alumni network.
- Support student wellbeing as an accessible point of contact — checking in regularly and helping ensure students feel supported, heard, and connected.
Mentorship & Advising
Office of the Dean — Peer Advising
Advisor
School of Arts & Sciences · School of Engineering & Applied Science · March 2025 – Present
- Run the Peer Advising Program, the initiative connecting all ~1,500 incoming first-years with upperclassmen advisors, and provide ongoing guidance to those student advisors.
- Advise on long-term academic planning — balancing rigorous requirements, accessing research opportunities and campus resources, and pursuing interdisciplinary pathways.
- Lead annual training for 120 peer advisors, designing programming that prepares them to mentor first-years through their academic and personal transition to Penn.
- Manage program operations and partnerships: advisor recruitment, coordination with Deans, and collaboration with cultural centers and student-support offices.
Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Research Peer Advisor
CURF · June 2025 – Present
- Support Penn undergraduates as they explore research, identify faculty mentors, and prepare grant applications — through one-on-one consultations and campus outreach.
- Currently advising 14 undergraduates beginning their research journeys, helping them connect with labs, secure funding, and navigate their first research experiences.
- Organizing a fireside chat with Dr. Lorena Grundy on student engagement in energy and sustainability, navigating uncertainty in academic paths, and the often-unseen realities of a life in academia.
Physics Community & Advocacy
American Physical Society
Student Ambassador
APS · April 2025 – Present
- Serve in a national cohort of students sharing APS resources at Penn, representing the Society in public and professional settings, and supporting an inclusive physics community.
- Accredited Penn's Society of Physics Students (Sigma Pi Sigma) with the national APS network — securing journal access, professional mentorship, and conference-travel opportunities for all Penn physics students.
- Represented Penn at the APS Mid-Atlantic Section meeting (Penn State, Nov 2025), chairing the session on Quantum Education Research & Quantum Computing and strengthening ties across the regional physics community.
- Joined the APS Annual Leadership Meeting in Washington, D.C. (Feb 2026), engaging U.S. senators and representatives from Utah and Pennsylvania on FY2027 research-funding priorities — renewables, quantum technology and competitiveness, science education, and grid modernization.
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APS Mid-Atlantic / session
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APS Leadership Meeting · D.C.
Teaching
I've served as a teaching assistant for three courses across physics and chemical engineering, supporting students in both theory and hands-on, project-based work.
PHYS 151 — Electromagnetism and Radiation
Teaching Assistant · Spring 2026
CBE 1600 — Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Teaching Assistant · Fall 2025
Supported students learning core principles — conservation laws, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and engineering design — and guided them through computational tools and process-flow analysis.
CBE 3300 — Product and Device Design
Teaching Assistant · Fall 2025
A project-based design course where students build functional chemical-engineering-driven devices. Assisted with safety, maker-space fabrication skills, electronics and control design, and prototype development.