hi, i'm laura

soon to be a second-year student at mit.

  • hackMIT & blueprint co-director
  • frequent goose-watcher at goose park by bu bridge
  • current classes: none. it's summer!
  • i have a lot of ideas & in-progress projects. reach out if you're curious!

hackathon projects

GenUIne

w caden, harry, sania @ treehacks 2026. reimagining llm chatbot interfaces

blueprint

w brian, maggie, wayne @ nexhacks 2026. extension for codebase understanding & visualization

a while ago

  • 2023 - 2025 Research Intern @ Stony Brook University Geosystems Engineering Lab

    Designed a physical lab-scale model for simulating ice floes suitable for photoelastic analysis. Author on abstract at AGU '23, '24, '25. MATLAB & AutoCAD.

  • 2024 Research Intern @ Stony Brook University Garcia Center

    Studied effects of nanofillers on charged polymer systems via molecular dynamics simulations. LAMMPS & Python.

fun facts

  • i'm on an eternal quest to find the best yogurt
  • i enjoy solving classical cipher puzzles
  • back when i did science olympiad in hs, i got 1st pl in "write-it do-it" 4x, including ny states. maybe i was born to be a prompt engineer
  • the keyboard below shows what colors I think musical notes correspond to.

reach out to me

Puddle Goose One Leg Goose