Stone Ridge High School

I was born and raised in Silver Spring, MD, and went to high school at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, MD. I graduated in 2003, and continued my studies as an undergraduate student at Stanford University. After changing my prospective major three times, I settled on studying Mechnical Engineering.

In the spring of my junior year, I joined the Stanford Microsystems Group under Dr. Beth Pruitt. I worked on measuring and characterizing piezoresistor noise and sensitivity with respect to piezoresistive cantilever fabrication parameters.

 Me working on a Bridgeport mill.

I received my BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in June 2007, and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. In Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am also a research assistant investigating BioMEMS with the MEMS Sensor and Actuator Lab under the direction of Dr. Reza Ghodssi.

My extracurricular interests include baking, sewing, robotics, and playing the piano.