I'm in the 5th year of my graduate study at Stanford, working on a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. My research is on electric space propulsion devices. I have a total of roughly 9 years of karate training, but with a large gap in the middle. I started training in Shito Ryu karate in Southern California in 6th grade, and continued through high school. I did not train much at all during undergrad, but my wife and I started practicing with Stanford Shotokan at the beginning of the summer of... Full Bio