Intern Mechanical/Human Factors Engineer specializing in human-centered product design
R&D Mechanical Engineering Intern2 years experienceInternConsumer ElectronicsRoboticsHealthcare
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Product/UX designer with academic HCI experience (CMU HCII) and Tufts coursework who has built research-driven products ranging from a fiber-focused community wellness app to a VR emotion-inducing gamified experience. Also completed a product design internship at a stealth consumer robotics startup in the beauty industry, conducting in-salon field research and prototyping human touchpoints, and has led a website team bridging UX and engineering with hands-on coding knowledge.
Experience
R&D Mechanical Engineering InternStealth Startup
Equity Teaching AssistantTufts University Center for Engineering Education
Product Design Research InternCarnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Website Team LeadTufts Human Factors & Ergonomics Society
Operational Assistant & Radio Show HostWMFO Freeform Station
Education
Tufts University School of Engineeringbachelor, Mechanical/Human Factors Engineering (Minor: Music Engineering) (2026)
Key Strengths
End-to-end product design from research through wireframes and iteration (wellness app)
Strong user-research-driven decision making (interviews with nutrition professionals and diverse users; surveys; benchmarking)
Iterative prototyping and usability testing that changes product direction (rebalanced fiber tracking vs community features)
Ability to translate complex/technical workflows into intuitive experiences (VR multi-room emotion experience with journey maps)
Research synthesis from academic literature into concrete interaction/game mechanics (emotion elicitation in VR)
Bridges design and engineering using coding background (HTML/CSS/C++/Python)
Pragmatic problem-solving to align ambitious UX with engineering constraints (Instagram events popup solution)
Leadership and cross-functional coordination (Website Team Lead managing designers and engineers)
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