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, continuing into its Computer Graphics & Game Technology master's.
(01)Selected Work
A cinematic Unreal Engine 5 short that gets a game engine to output frames you would read as oil paint. A figure walks a canyon, finds a train swallowed by roots, and picks up something that briefly opens the world backward — carried by custom HLSL shaders, including an anisotropic Kuwahara filter, over Lumen GI and hardware ray tracing.
A 3D voxel engine written from scratch in C++/OpenGL, where everything that makes the world feel inhabited is hand-built: seven procedural biomes blended 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's work turned into a place rather than a list: one Three.js 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.
Penn Spark's website, live at pennspark.org. Led end-to-end as project lead: wireframes and a component system in Figma, then a rebuild off an ageing Gatsby stack onto Next.js + React, with a content system the team updates itself.
A self-directed UX overhaul that turns Penn's dense, fragmented course portal into four connected surfaces (Dashboard, Course, Schedule, Degree), so planning a semester stops being a scavenger hunt across tools.
A 3D car-chase game (à la Smashy Road) built to find the limits of AI-assisted creation for a design course: 3D assets from Meshy, logic scaffolded with Codex, assembled in Three.js. It holds up as a game — responsive driving and a survival score that ramps the tension.
A collaborative web app where a time capsule stops being a folder and becomes a space — photos, messages and 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 research-to-prototype redesign of Wikipedia's mobile interface where testing, not taste, decided the outcome: interviews, a survey and insight synthesis produced three reader personas, then usability sessions with four users reshaped previews, search snippets and AI framing across five sections.
An interactive 3D scene that puts “Boo,” a childhood-game character, within reach: modeled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rigged and animated, then wired into Spline so keyboard and mouse input make it react 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 — continuing into its Computer Graphics & Game Technology master's — 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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