Hilltop Motorsports is SMU's Formula SAE team. We design, build, and race a formula-style car against other universities.
A national organization fostering principled debate on American foreign and national-security policy. I speak at events.
Detailed MEP systems in CAD for commercial buildings. Learned how a drawing turns into a building, and where my classroom intuition was wrong.
Ran a crew through high-volume weekends. First real lessons in logistics, accountability, and reading people fast under pressure.
Left halfway through, then re-applied and finished. Causal Inference, Strategic Behavior & Game Theory, Computing for Economics.
Mechanical Systems and Physics of Magnetism. The year I traded the lecture hall for a drafting desk, and came back knowing what I wanted.
A Python and R pipeline using difference-in-differences and two-stage least squares across 15+ countries, built to isolate the causal effect of tariffs on employment. The headline protective effect mostly disappears once you correct for which industries get chosen for protection in the first place.
A valuation model for a petro-chemical asset built around refinery margins and feedstock sensitivity. Value tracked the crack spread and the plant's feedstock optionality far more than the headline price of crude.