Alan is a sophmore at MIT from Rapid City, South Dakota, hoping to major in Mathematics with Computer Science and Writing. His first experience working in the lab was as a high school student in the 2018 Research Science Institute, where he worked on path planning methods for vehicles with energy collection. He returned to continue this research in the fall of 2019 as part of MIT’s UROP program. Outside of schoolwork and research, Alan enjoys reading, writing, and singing.