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2025

2024

  1. Discovering San Diego’s Multimodal Transportation System Dec 24 Transportation 7 min ride This is a post I originally wrote for the USC ITE website. In December 2024, eight USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Sol Price School of Public Policy students embarked on USC ITE’s second-ever technical study trip…
  2. Consulting Internship Recruiting Oct 29 Ramblings 7 min ride I'm currently a junior in college. Post-junior year is well known to be the most important time to get a "good" internship, especially when considering conversion to a full-time job. Because of this, I thought it would…
  3. How I Computer in 2024 Oct 1 Tech & Servers 12 min ride Introduction I love consumer technology, so it's always interesting to see how people set up their devices to get work done. I try to be particular and reasoned when choosing tech solutions for myself. So after reading…
  4. Recapping the HFES ASPIRE 2024 Conference Sep 17 Ramblings 3 min ride I recently returned from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's ASPIRE conference in Phoenix, AZ. At one of the poster sessions, I presented my current research project on integrating Positive Train Control and…
  5. Advice for High School Me Jul 13 Ramblings 9 min ride I was recently asked to speak at a professional development event for teachers at my middle school. They posed three questions for me to answer: If I could go back to the start of my middle school and high school…
  6. 2024 ITE Student Leadership Summit at Cal Poly Feb 28 Transportation 8 min ride A little under a year after my most recent trip to San Luis Obispo, I've just come back from another visit - this time for the ITE Western District Student Leadership Summit (SLS), which (like the IISE conference I…
  7. Grist "No example workspace available" Error Feb 20 Tech & Servers 2 min ride I'm writing this post since I've been managing a self-hosted Grist instance for a while now. Grist is essentially a self-hosted version of Airtable, but even more supercharged! It's a great product, but it's still in…
  8. Cool Tech: Active Transit Signal Priority with LYT Jan 6 Tech & Servers 5 min ride One of the most effective ways to speed up public transit operations in mixed-flow traffic is transit signal priority (TSP). TSP, in a broad sense, aims to reduce delay arising from waiting for red lights at…

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