Horses on a farm in my hometown of Ashland, Oregon.
Although I was born in Hawaii, I grew up in Ashland, Oregon where I
attended Ashland High School and began to foster my love for all things
science. Back then I was just getting interested in hardware and experiment and built
a few home projects from scratch like a Tesla coil and a Hoffman Apparatus. Videos of
these experiments can be found on the older uploads of my YouTube channel. I algo got involved
in amateur radio during my junior year of high school when I got my general class license.
My best contact yet was 50 miles on a cheap 5 Watt Baofeng VHF radio using the national simplex frequency 146.520 MHz.
My sisters and I in front of the Cornell Bell Tower during graduation.
For my freshman year of college I attended the University of Arizona but I decided
I wanted a change of scenery and transferred to Cornell. At Cornell, I took my first ever programming class which was an
introduction to MATLAB. Before this course, I didn't really understand what programming was or how software was built.
I started to realize that I enjoy programming almost as much as physics, and I started learning other languages like Java
and Bash. I got to take Professor David Gries' famous CS 2110 course and started to understand the importance of
object oriented programming.
A picture of me at the overcast Newport Beach along the Oregon Coast.
The Oregon Coast is one of my favorite places on Earth. Every time I go back to Oregon I like to walk on the beach and
see all the ocean life that washes up on shore. Outside of work, I love getting out to go on hikes or lift weights. Besides the coast,
some of my favorite places in the Pacific Northwest include Crater Lake National Park, and Mt. Ashland's ski slopes.
