Professional & Research Experience

Smart Stove Safety Knob

• Led end-to-end mechanical and electronic development of a retrofit smart knob to mitigate unattended cooking fires, turning competitive seed funding and faculty mentorship into a validated functional prototype.
• Synthesized a low-power spring-loaded ratchet mechanism with motion sensing shutoff and app-connected monitoring, targeting a sub-$50 retail price and a ~$15 manufacturing BOM.
• Awarded Honorable Mention at the Georgia Tech Design Expo for technical design, kinematics, and user validation.

Project Limbo  •  Next-Generation Upper-Limb Myoelectric Prosthesis

• Contributed to Project Limbo, a multidisciplinary initiative integrating hardware, embedded software, and clinical biomechanics for transradial amputees.
• Characterized residual forearm muscle activation patterns to optimize surface EMG electrode configurations for proportional myoelectric hand control.
• Refined biosignal acquisition and neuromuscular decoding strategies, validating electrode placement to reach over 92% control accuracy and improving clinical performance metrics by 15%.