I am currently a PhD student at Stanford studying mechanical engineering, biomechanics, and design. I am a member of the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab where I am studying the dynamics and control of human running and helping to create and develop OpenSim, open-source software for biomechanical and robotic simulation.

I am also co-founder of the Pepper Eater project, an on-going project launched in Stanford's d.school and working in collaboration with Compatible Technology International. Our goal is to provide more efficient and safer tools to women who manually process chili peppers in Ethiopia, as current manual methods are labor-intensive and present long-term health hazards