Hi, I'm Audrey! I'm a senior at Princeton majoring in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in optics and photonics and a side interest in comms. I'm currently working in Princeton's Lightwave Communications Research Lab under Paul Prucnal. There's a lot I love outside of engineering too! I love to learn more about the world, and I think it's important to do so through many different domains. My favorite way to learn is through my hobbies: art, figure skating, hiking, reading, running, and travelling! I firmly believe that the best engineering is people-centric. If you also love talking engineering, physics, art, books, or anything else nerdy, reach out to me! I love new friends :)
Senior thesis research on using photonic neural networks (PNNs) for analog signal processing. Investigating the use of PNNs for compensation of nonlinearities in wireless channels.
Research internship analyzing satellite communication networks.
Developed Starlink Global Enterprise Sales's first testing and reporting suite for network performance, implementing a test lab and network. With this test suite, I collaborated with external networking vendors to certify joint product offerings. Also, met some of the coolest people ever. ❃ My mentor's endorsement.
I designed optical systems with RF circuits to stabilize Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs, designing a double PID loop to control the amplitude modulation of an externally-injected RF signal. For more details, ❃ Our CLEO publication.
With the Shi lab in UC San Diego's Bioengineering Department, I studied lipid and protein metabolism in human muscle tissue and Drosophila ovaries using Raman spectroscopy. ❃ One publication from my time there.
Designed two mixed-signal PCBs for control of a remote car. Both powered from 9.6V batteries with RF communication capabilities. Controller board sends motor control commands to the car depending on IMU data. Both drive custom-programmed LED strips. Compute done on a custom-programmed STM32 MCU.
Simulated a multicycle CPU for the RISC-V ISA in C++, which executed RISC-V programs and gave performance statistics. Included a custom cache, 5-stage pipelining and full forwarding and stalls.
Built a fully autonomous car with a glove for remote control. Designed and fabricated a power distribution and motor driver board, a sensing board for speed control, an analog video demodulation board, and a flex sensor glove circuit. Wrote all of our own drivers in embedded C for a PSOC MCU. Wrote BLE firmware for communication between the glove and the car.
Fabricated, tested, and characterized a chip on a silicon wafer with n-channel MOSFETs, photodiodes, resistor arrays, solar cells, ring oscillators, and NAND/NOR gates.
I've been coaching figure skaters for 4 years (and counting!). I teach all ages -- from tots to adults -- and all levels, from absolute beginners to regional competitors, and I also choreograph for my classes! To identify and communicate balance and movement techniques which havelong been engrained into my muscle memory is no small feat, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to exercise this muscle.
I am co-captain of Princeton's award-winning synchronized skating team. Along with running the team of 16 skaters, I also play a large role in running the larger figure skating club, which entails managing over 90 members (including recreational skaters and members of two competition teams), organizing 6 travel competitions and 2 professional shows, and helping to manage a budget of around $20,000.
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Watch my 2D animation that I made in a week while working a 9-5 internship! Or, read my read my comprehensive 60-page guide on rigging a 3D animated character.
I'm junior fellow for Service Focus through Princeton's Pace Center for Civic Engagement for the "Perfect City" cohort, a group run by Aaron Landsman and inspired by his own Perfect City project, which is dedicated to showing city residents, especially kids, how to use their lived experiences to influence urban planning. As part of Service Focus more broadly, I'm working on integrating service in the day-to-day life of myself and my peers.
I lead outdoor orientation trips for incoming freshmen! I take groups of 14-16 pre-frosh on 4-day backcountry orientation camping trips, letting them know the real deal about Princeton before they dive into the academic year. Throughout the school year, I teach technical skills to OA leaders-in-training and lead weekend day-hiking trips to promote the mental and physical benefits of the outdoors. My own OA trip was what first got me into the outdors. I ♡ OA!
I've been very concerned with the climate since middle school, but senior year was when I finally decided to try and do something about it. I spearheaded a climate walkout at school, and we ended up getting a couple hundred participants. I also ventured out on some attempts to reduce my individual climate footprint: stuffing all my trash into plastic water bottles to create "bottle bricks" that I was supposedly going to ship off to an organization that would use them as building material, going vegetarian for around a year, and becoming very interested in only shopping at bulk goods stores with my own containers.