Medical Systems Engineer

“I was in elementary school when I saw a video of a da Vinci surgical robot suturing a grape, and it became my first spark of interest in STEM, four arms moving at once the way Doc Ock’s did in the Spider-Man movies.

In 2017, my father brought home a science magazine and one cover stayed with me. It featured Dr. Ellen T. Roche’s soft robotic heart sleeve, and it was the first time I really saw how engineering could expand what medicine is capable of. Later, through high school, I leaned more seriously toward becoming a doctor, drawn by the human impact and the idea of working on the front lines with Doctors Without Borders. I followed a lot of medical pages on Instagram, and one post in particular stopped me. It showed a doctor pulling a patient back with a rope, and instead of only seeing the hero in the doctor, I couldn’t stop thinking about the rope itself.

Then it clicked. The rope was everything behind the clinician, the technologies, diagnostics, imaging, and tools that make saving lives possible in the first place. In that moment, it felt less like an interest and more like a vocation, a calling to build those tools and scale impact beyond one person at a time. That is what led me to Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London, and I have never looked back since.”