Nuclear Engineering · Texas A&M · Fusion Research
Bottling a sun —
unnatural in the most
human way possible.
I build instruments to see things that aren't otherwise visible. Nuclear engineering undergraduate. Fusion science communicator. Based in College Station, Texas.
What I'm building
Every project is an instrument. Every instrument makes something invisible visible. Every result connects back to the physics of fusion.
Building a fluxgate magnetometer from first principles. Biot-Savart derivation, coil construction, calibration against the Earth's field. The same physics as tokamak magnetic diagnostics.
Mapping the resonant modes of a semi-hollow electric guitar body. Helmholtz resonance, Chladni patterns, wave equation on a bounded domain — analogous to plasma oscillation modes in a tokamak.
Real-time OBDII data acquisition with ESP32. Sensor fusion via Kalman filtering to estimate road grade from indirect measurements — the same mathematical framework as spacecraft attitude determination.
Every project follows the same architecture: build it with my hands, derive the governing equations, connect the bench-scale physics to fusion. The gap between theory and measurement is where real understanding lives — and it's almost never shown on camera.
GoPro chest mount. Real bench. Real mistakes visible. Physical proof that the work happened.
Manim animations. Every step. No simplification, no handwaving. The math earns the trust.
Every bench-scale instrument connects explicitly to fusion diagnostics, plasma physics, or reactor engineering.
Standing on shoulders
Feynman's clarity. Sagan's sense of scale. Bret Victor's conviction that ideas deserve better interfaces. 3Blue1Brown's visual intuition. Smarter Every Day's authenticity. Welch Labs' willingness to go deep. Karpathy's first-principles thinking out loud. Krasnow's build credibility.
Nobody is doing all of this simultaneously in fusion science communication. That's the opening.