About Me

Hi! My name is Ash.

I’m a Mechanical Engineer (BSME) graduated from Northeastern University.

3D printing was my first great engineering love, a gateway I fell into while prototyping parts for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) back in high school. As the technology that first inspired me, I was fascinated by the accessibility of additive manufacturing and by how it could be harnessed to inspire others.

That fascination lead me first to a 3D Designer Internship at Makelab, a 3D printing consultancy, then to a Print Production Operations Internship at Formlabs in 2021. I then joined Desktop Metal as a Mechanical Engineering Co-Op on the Sustaining team in the Spring of 2022.

At the same time, I worked as a Research Assistant at Northeastern’s Programmable and Reconfigurable Soft Engineered Systems (PARSES) Lab, exploring the intersection between 3D printing and human interaction design. While my first great engineering love was driven by the joy of design, the second blossomed from a realization of what impact these designs could have: they could boost the safety of human-robot interactions. They could enable life-saving medical procedures.

I discovered how fulfilling it was to facilitate these positive impacts myself as a Urology R&D Co-Op at Boston Scientific in the Spring of 2023. The engineer I hope to become is one that keeps positively impacting patients’ lives and building tools that inspire.

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