I'm a designer and engineer drawn to the space where the two meet, where graphics, interactive 3D, and product design come together into things that feel as considered as they're built. Currently studying CS + Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
(01)Selected Work
A cinematic Unreal Engine 5 short where a figure walks a canyon, finds a train swallowed by roots, and picks up something that briefly opens the world backward. Built in Maya + UE5 with Lumen GI, hardware ray tracing, and custom HLSL shaders, including an anisotropic Kuwahara filter for a painterly look.
A 3D voxel engine built from scratch in C++/OpenGL: seven procedural biomes from layered Perlin/FBM noise, 3D caves, PCF shadow mapping, screen-space reflections, a day-night cycle, multithreaded chunk streaming, and an A*-pathfinding NPC ecosystem.
A semester-long interactive portfolio built as one Three.js 3D scene, where floating GLTF objects with custom physics and GSAP animation become the navigation for eight course projects, from CSS art and generative p5.js sketches to a browser game.
Led the end-to-end redesign of Penn Spark's website as project lead: wireframes and a component system in Figma, then a rebuild from an aging Gatsby stack to Next.js + React. Shipped live at pennspark.org.
A self-directed UX overhaul of Penn's course portal, distilling a dense, fragmented interface into four connected surfaces (Dashboard, Course, Schedule, Degree) for clearer, more guided planning.
A 3D car-chase game (à la Smashy Road) built for a design course on AI-assisted creation: 3D assets from Meshy, logic scaffolded with Codex, assembled in Three.js. Responsive driving and a survival score that ramps the tension.
A collaborative web app where users create digital time capsules (photos, messages, media) locked until a chosen date, then revealed through an immersive 3D gallery. Built with React Three Fiber, a Node/MongoDB API, and AWS S3.
A full research-to-prototype redesign of Wikipedia's mobile interface for DSGN 2570: interviews, a survey, insight synthesis, lo-fi wireframes, usability testing with four users, and a hi-fi prototype across five sections (Home, Article, Search, Language, AI Chat).
An interactive 3D scene built around “Boo,” a childhood-game character: modeled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rigged and animated, then wired into Spline so keyboard and mouse input trigger reactions in the browser.
(02)About
I work across design and engineering — systems, graphics, and the product that ties them together.
I'm a designer and engineer studying CS + Design at Penn, with a deliberately broad base. I've maintained 50+ live Unity mobile games and fixed 100+ QA bugs at a game studio, wrangled million-row datasets in SQL, written a voxel engine from scratch in C++/OpenGL, shaded a cinematic short in Unreal, and led a 15-person team rebuilding a product end-to-end. I move easily between systems engineering, graphics, and the design and UX work that makes them usable, and I care most about doing each with real depth.
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