Athens, Greece
Visited Athens to present at the BIBE 2019 conference.
Media
News features, talks, awards, and travel.
News & Features
2025
NASA Grant Awarded to UH NSM Alumnus
Awarded a $1.275M NASA grant to develop immersive extended reality technology for training astronauts for lunar and Martian missions — building on doctoral research conducted at the University of Houston.
2022
Pumps and Pipes Conference at The Ion Houston
Presenter at the Exhibition of Pumps and Pipes held at The Ion Houston.
2022
Pumps and Pipes Conference
Presenter at the Exhibition of Pumps and Pipes, 2022.
2022
STEM Challenge Competition Begins Lifelong Connections for UHCL Alumnus
Feature article on my career as a UHCL alumnus.
2020
Geological Society of America Grant Supports Outreach for Geoscience Education
Assisted with the technical requirements for virtual outreach activities for elementary students.
2019
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Awarded the NSF GRFP — announcement from the University of Houston.
2019
UH Students and Alumni Earn Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
EurekAlert announcement of NSF GRFP awards including mine.
2018
Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Surgeries
University of Houston news post about work in the MRI Lab at UH.
2017
IEEE CS Announces Winners of 2017 Global Student Challenge
Third place in the 2017 Global Student Challenge for the GrowthLine project.
Feature
2017
Houston Projected to Become Technological Leader Worldwide
Featured perspective from San Jacinto Community College as an underrepresented minority in STEM.
2016
NASA Swarmathon — Technical Report
Co-author on a technical report from the NASA Swarmathon challenge.
2016
GPJC Rotary Club Turn Their Pinkies Purple to Fight Polio
Community service fundraiser to fight polio — part of the student team that helped raise funds.
Travel
Doha, Qatar
Internship with Hamad Medical Corporation, Department of Surgery — researched augmented reality visualization for controlling a manipulator for transrectal MRI-guided prostate biopsy interventions.
Panama City, Panama
Attended World Youth Day in Panama City, 2019.
Nacala, Mozambique
Mission trip to assist students at Politécnico de Nacuxa and local station Rádio Watana with computer repair and video editing.