About Me

I am an incoming PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Cornell University, where I will work under Prof. Alyosha Molnar. I am interested in the future of wireless systems, especially the RF frontends and analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuits that let physical signals become reliable communication and sensing systems.

My path into this area has moved from broad curiosity in mathematics, physics, computation, and engineering toward a focused interest in robust radio-frequency systems. At Jamii Telecommunications in Nairobi, I saw how planning choices, antenna placement, hardware limits, and network operations shape real user experience. At Cornell, I worked on RFIC characterization in Prof. Molnar’s lab, building automated MATLAB/Python measurement flows for metrics such as noise figure, B1dB, and IIP3, and debugging IQ imbalance and phase synchronization issues during receiver bring-up. Those experiences pushed me toward research that connects circuit architecture, measurement discipline, and system-level wireless performance.

At Swarthmore, I have built this interest through embedded systems, OFDM simulation, software-defined radio work, and a senior capstone telemetry platform for a hydrogen fuel-cell Shell Eco-marathon vehicle. The capstone combines live telemetry, serial fuel-cell monitoring, dashboarding, and predictive burn-and-coast race strategy, which has become a useful way for me to think about hardware/software co-design under real constraints.

I am also a non-executive director at Koseiteki Group Limited, a technology consulting firm supporting market-entry assessments and feasibility studies for companies entering the Kenyan and East African markets. The firm also performs technical due diligence for private equity and venture capital investment decisions, and consults on new product lines for telecom and wireless companies. I started this role in September 2024.

Interests

Wireless systems, RF frontends, analog/mixed-signal/RF IC design, RFIC characterization, software-defined radio, embedded telemetry, communication systems, and hardware/software co-design.