University of Toronto Seismic Design Team

• Since my first year of undergraduate, I have been an active member of UofT's Seismic Design Team
• Our team's goal is to design a 5 foot Balsa wood tower, which is then tested under seismic load conditions at an international competition
• My role in the team is to assist the design process by finding ways in which we can optimize the tower
• One method for generating concepts for structures is performing Topology Optimization using a finite element analysis software called HyperWorks
• I have also written a genetic algorithm, which searches for the optimal bracing scheme of a truss-element structure, which I hope to make improvements on this year
• This year, we plan on developing an iterative algorithm that searches for redundant components in our tower's bracing scheme
• A GIF of the genetic algorithm running is shown below

Treasurer of the University of Toronto Math Union

• My responsibilites include managing the club's finances and organizing social events

School Projects

• MAT1510 Final Project (Work in Progress): Studies the effectiveness of image segmentation neural networks on the boundary of images
• MAT367H Bonus Essay: Discusses the motivation behind the definition of smooth knots and their equivalence
• MAT327H Final Essay: A report that studies helicity, an invariant of the Euler equations, and its relation to know theory