Engineer · Polymath · Innovator
Exploring the places where physics meets philosophy, where engineering meets policy, and where our institutions meet the messiness of real life.
Read on →I'm an engineer based in Washington, DC, currently working at the Breakthrough Institute, where I research and pontificate how technology and policy can reshape the way we power civilization. I view myself as a jack of all trades, a label once used to mock Shakespeare but that I embrace as a testament to my unique aptitude for interdisciplinary thinking.
Published pieces, reports, and professional work.
Innovation is path-dependent: tomorrow's innovations will emerge from today's technologies, universities, and manufacturing hubs. Fusion is no exception. Can we use this knowledge to inform better industrial policy for fusion and for the industrial base, at large?
2026 The Breakthrough InstituteRebuilding competitive aluminum production outside of China will take more than tariffs — it demands coordinated investment, allied cooperation, and the process knowledge in molten salt electrolysis that carries over to next-generation industrial technologies.
2026The notebook section — aimless, curious, unapologetically exploratory.
I believe that innovation stems from human-to-human interactions. Could statistical mechanics and chemical kinetics provide the mathematical basis to model knowledge transfer and idea development?
We need only look to the Federalist Papers to remember the role of the national legislature in grid governance.