At the intersection of Markets, Startups, and Frontier Engineering.
Mechanical engineer and ISB Merit Scholar bridging applied engineering research and physical systems with techno-economics, market adoption, and frontier venture diligence across clean fuels, climate systems, and industrials.
Core Framing
Three Lenses of Exploration
How physics, market mechanics, and venture building inform every thesis.
Markets
Techno-economics, adoption curves & energy transition
Analyzing unit economics, infrastructure capital expenditure, regulatory forcing functions, and adoption curves across clean energy carriers, electric mobility, and industrial transitions.
Guiding Inquiries
- •Where does the economic bottleneck sit along the physical supply chain?
- •What is the true lifecycle total cost of ownership (TCO) vs legacy incumbents?
- •How do regulatory inflection points (EUDR, carbon pricing, subsidies) alter market equilibria?
Startups
Venture diligence, commercialization & technical defensibility
Evaluating early-stage frontier technologies, stress-testing whether laboratory breakthroughs survive manufacturing scaling, and advising founders on go-to-market and investor positioning.
Guiding Inquiries
- •Is the primary risk fundamental physics or manufacturing engineering?
- •Does the product deliver unit-cost parity without relying on permanent subsidies?
- •What is the customer acquisition wedge and real deployment friction on the factory floor?
Frontier Engineering
Applied physics, remote sensing & autonomous hardware systems
Grounding market theses in quantitative engineering—from satellite foundation model embeddings for regulatory ESG proof to multi-criteria robotics optimization and high-energy directed systems.
Guiding Inquiries
- •How do thermodynamic and sensor resolution limits constrain real-world performance?
- •Can multi-modal foundation models replace noisy heuristic computer vision pipelines?
- •How does software flexibility on the plant floor outrank upfront equipment Capex?
Selected Work
Projects & Research
Dictate: Local-First macOS Dictation & Context-Aware Speech Engine
A local-first, context-aware speech-to-text dictation application for macOS running speech recognition and formatting entirely on-device via whisper.cpp. Users hold a global hotkey, speak naturally, and cleanly structured text appears directly at their active cursor without audio frames ever leaving their computer.
Plot Passport: Satellite EUDR Verification Engine
A plot-level satellite verification system designed to help agricultural commodity exporters prove deforestation-free provenance under the strict EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) cutoff date.
Fuel Cell Vehicles: Techno-Economic & Infrastructure Feasibility
A quantitative review comparing proton-exchange membrane fuel cell vehicles (PEMFCs) against battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and internal combustion engines across lifecycle total cost of ownership.
Flagship Software & Systems Project
Featured Utility: Dictate
Dictate
1.0.0-previewmacOS Native • Local EngineSpeak. It types. Nothing leaves your Mac.
A local-first, context-aware dictation companion for macOS. Hold Fn/Globe, speak naturally, and get cleanly formatted text in any app without your voice leaving your Mac.
Direct macOS Distribution
Install Standalone macOS Disk Image
Native Metal hardware-accelerated binary. No account, no cloud servers, no runtime dependencies.
Interactive Hardware Simulation
Push-to-Talk Global Overlay & Active Cursor Injection
Dynamic App Profiles
The exact same raw speech transforms instantly based on the active macOS frontmost application.
Custom Vocabulary & Phonetic Biasing
Provide phonetic biasing tokens for uncommon engineering terms, repo names, acronyms, and teammate names.
Local On-Device Engine vs Cloud Dictation
Why local inference on Apple Silicon outperforms hosted server-based transcription tools.
| Feature / Dimension | Dictate (This App) | Cloud Dictation (Whisperflow) | Cloud Speech APIs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Processing | 100% On-Device (whisper.cpp + Metal) | Remote Cloud Servers | Remote Cloud Endpoints |
| Privacy & Telemetry | Zero data leaves device; fully air-gapped | Audio stored & processed in cloud | Subject to API provider logging |
| Pricing | Free standalone app (No subscription) | $15 – $30 / month recurring | Usage-based token billing |
| Offline Support | Full offline functionality (Airplane mode) | Fails without internet connection | Fails without internet |
| Model Selection | Whisper Tiny, Base, Small, Medium, Large-v3-Turbo | Locked to provider's hosted model | Fixed remote endpoints |
| System Integration | Native macOS menu bar + cursor injection | Proprietary desktop client | Developer integration required |
Field Notes
Writing & Perspectives
The Hydrogen Infrastructure Reality: Why Stacks Won the Lab but Trucks Need Pipes
Fuel cell stacks have met commercial longevity and efficiency benchmarks. The true bottleneck for hydrogen mobility is midstream logistics, compression thermodynamics, and $2.5M dispensing stations.
Evaluating Frontier Tech: Separating Physics from Pitch Decks in Energy Storage
From lab coin-cells to multi-megawatt battery packs: what evaluating 20+ startups at i-Venture @ ISB taught me about spotting genuine technical moats.
Algorithmic Sustainability: Satellite Foundation Models in EUDR Compliance
The EU Deforestation Regulation demands proof of plot-level provenance down to precise coordinates. How AlphaEarth embeddings turn noisy satellite pixels into regulatory audit trails.
Let’s discuss markets, frontier tech, or venture building.
Always open to conversations with founders, engineers, researchers, and investors.