Undergraduate Research

Research

I am an undergraduate researcher working on resilient communications, satellite networking, and cybersecurity-adjacent systems. My recent work has focused on architectures that improve the resilience of global telecommunications infrastructure by combining subsea monitoring, satellite communications, and smart-contract-based coordination.

Featured work

Selected publications developed during my undergraduate research.

Featured Publication 2025

Hybrid Space and Submarine Architecture to Ensure Information Security of Telecommunications (HEIST)

IEEE Access · Volume 13 · Journal Article

This paper presents HEIST, a hybrid architecture designed to improve the resilience of undersea communications by pairing enhanced subsea monitoring with emergency rerouting through commercial satellite networks when submarine cables are disrupted.

I contributed to this work as a bachelor’s undergraduate student at Cornell. The project brought together collaborators across multiple universities and institutions working on resilient communications, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure.

Undersea cables Satellite communications Situational awareness Smart contracts Critical infrastructure

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Conference Paper 2025

Ad-Hoc Satcom Mega-Constellations through Heterogeneous Network Smart Contracting

IEEE ICC Workshops · Conference Paper

This paper explores smart-contract-driven coordination across heterogeneous satellite networks, with a focus on dynamically rerouting disrupted communications and building more flexible multi-operator communications architectures.

Satellite networking Distributed ledger Interoperability Network resilience

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Research focus

The themes connecting my recent work.

Resilient Communications

Designing systems that preserve connectivity under infrastructure disruption, including cable faults, adversarial interference, and degraded network conditions.

Satellite Networking

Studying heterogeneous satellite ecosystems, interoperability, and dynamic rerouting across multi-operator communication environments.

Cybersecurity + Policy

Exploring how technical architectures, security requirements, and governance decisions interact in critical communications infrastructure.