About
I am a Mechanical Engineering PhD student, co-advised by Prof. Hayden Taylor and Prof. Lining Yao since 2024. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London and spent a year working at a start-up that designs protein based biodegradable synthetic textile fibres for the textile industry before starting graduate school.
My research spans two key thrusts: additively manufacturing nanocarrier embedded hydrogel microenvironments for phytohormone delivery in hydroponic systems, and engineering instrumented organoid devices for cytokine signal reconstruction during immunotherapy.
Outside the lab, I enjoy rock climbing, playing squash, and pretending to be a barista. Feel free to get in touch for a chat!
Experience
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Design for Nanomanufacturing Lab, UC Berkeley
2024 – present
Mechanical Engineer
2023 – 2024
Faraday Institution Summer Intern (FUSE)
IONETIC & Electrochemical Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
2023
Research Assistant
HEAD Lab, Imperial College London
2021 – 2022
Medical Device Engineering Intern
2021 – 2022
Education
MS/PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Materials)
University of California, Berkeley
2024 – present
Advised by Prof. Hayden Taylor and Prof. Lining Yao
BEng, Mechanical Engineering with a Year in Industry
Imperial College London
2019 – 2023
First Class Honours
Research
News
- 2026Gave a talk on the root-on-chip at the UC MRPI Annual Meeting, UC Riverside.
- 2026Received the Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) Graduate Research Grant.
- 2024Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- 2024Started my PhD at UC Berkeley.