Personal projects, interests, and the things that got me into propulsion in the first place.
I spend a lot of free time at aviation and space museums, mostly looking at engines. The J58 is a favourite: a turbojet that behaves increasingly like a ramjet at Mach 3, with bypass bleed around the core.
The GE90-115B is another. Seeing its core with the cowls open shows how much plumbing sits around a modern combustor.
Seaspan Shipyards in North Vancouver showed me engineering at a very different scale: dry-docking, hull work, and the systems integration behind large naval vessels.
I interned there in summer 2024 as an ILS & LSA systems engineer on the Joint Support Ship program: provisioning conferences with the Royal Canadian Navy, 6,000+ technical records, and PSAR development for the AFFF system using MBSE tools.
On a flight near Paris, the sky was full of contrails. Some were fresh, thin lines. Others had already spread into wide, hazy sheets of cirrus.
Contrail cirrus is one of the non-CO₂ effects of aviation, and it is the “contrails” in JET-CALF. I spend my days measuring the particles that help form them, so seeing a sky like this from the window was interesting.
In May 2026 I presented our micro-turbojet emissions work at the Combustion Institute – Canadian Section spring technical meeting, hosted by Concordia University in Montreal.
The talk covered our fuel-emissions measurements on the micro-turbojet and the reactor-network model of its combustor. The slides are on the Publications page.
I make short animations with Manim, the library behind 3Blue1Brown. The first was the Lorenz attractor: two trajectories that start \(10^{-5}\) apart and end up nowhere near each other, which is a good way to show what deterministic chaos means.
I also write small simulations for fun, like double and triple pendulums derived with Kane’s method. More on the Projects page.
During my internship at Seaspan, I played soccer with the other interns. We were the pink team, the intern team of 2024. Running around for an hour was the best reset after a long week.
A late session with Nishan Sapkota. We use transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to look for soot particles. It is quiet, dark and slow work, and very different from a jet engine test cell.
Museums, engine cutaways, and the history of high-speed flight.
Manim explainers on thermodynamics, combustion, and maths.
Watching and playing.
Java instructor for kids, now a TA for solid mechanics.