Business, Leadership, & Entrepreneurship
RAY Robotics (UC Berkeley Capstone)
- Leading design of autonomous last-mile delivery system for MEng capstone project
- Engage in rapid prototyping cycle, with rigorous design reviews and collective responsibility for engineering excellence
- Facilitate team meetings, liaise with MEng office, and help set agendas and team goals for team of 10 students
- Lead grant and pre-seed funding push, outreach and customer discovery efforts, and pitch preparation
September 2025 – Present
NOVA Robotics & AI Community
- Help plan and coordinate conferences, roundtables, and other outreach events as first non-founder member of NOVA (Network for Open Vision & Advancement in Robotics & AI)
- Maintain vast network of academics, professionals, policy figures, and others in robotics and AI industries
- Liaise with figures from UC Berkeley, MIT, and beyond to host events for students, alumni, and community members
December 2025 – Present
UC Berkeley Robotics Affinity Group Leader
- Selected amongst incoming MEng cohort to coordinate events and lead career outreach opportunities
- Set up industry visits, professional speakers, and mixers on behalf of affinity group
- Maintain network of MEng students interested in robotics opportunities
- Working with NOVA to plan more involved future events for MEng students to get involved in important conversations about the future of robotics and automation
July 2025 – Present
ENGIN 274 Deep Tech Commercialization Strategies
- Performed market research, customer discovery, and business plan & IP analysis to commercialize real research breakthrough from Berkeley Lab
- Worked on small interdisciplinary student team with engineering, business, and law students
- Generated many potential commercialization pathways, rigorously testing the feasibility of each and narrowing down to a single application
- Interviewed experts and industry leaders to gauge commercial viability of research applications
- Presented progress and findings numerous times to investors, policy makers, alumni, and tech executives
August 2025 – December 2025
MBA 292ID Impact Startup Disco
- Performed 48-hour ideate-validate-pitch sprint in Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Impact Startup Disco course over a single weekend
- Worked with team of MBA students to create commercialization strategy for reFresh, a restaurant-to-nonprofit food waste reduction platform
- Performed market research and compiled boots-on-the-ground interviews of restaurant managers and charity workers
- Generated and presented mockup of technology platform from a user point of view
October 2025
