I came to aerospace engineering for the physics and stayed for the problems where physics, software and people meet. At Georgia Tech I finished a B.S. in aerospace engineering in December 2022, then an M.S. in computer science in May 2025.
The work since has followed one thread: systems that have to behave predictably, and the people who rely on them. I mapped satellite coverage at Intelsat, built test rigs at Raytheon and in a Georgia Tech lab, worked on a new flight deck at Universal Avionics, helped design a cislunar refueling platform, and spent two years on decision support for space domain awareness. My master's specialization in human-computer interaction shows up in that work as attention to the operator: what a cockpit display, an alert or an analyst's tool must show for a decision made under time pressure.
Today I'm an automation engineer at R.E. Mason, an Emerson Impact Partner. I write DeltaV control logic, including the interlocks that keep a process safe, and prove it on a simulation test bench before it goes through factory and site acceptance testing and runs real equipment. It is control engineering where mistakes are expensive, and it has made me want to do the same work for vehicles.
That is where I'm heading: guidance, navigation and control, and the simulation that supports it. My record is strongest at the two ends of the loop, the dynamics and the decision-making. The middle, estimating a vehicle's state from noisy measurements, is what I'm working on next.
