Hi, I'm Carson.

I'm a biomedical engineer from Barrington, IL, and I graduated from Duke in May 2026 with a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering, a minor in Neuroscience, and a certificate in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. I'm currently working in life sciences consulting in Chicago.

I grew up with family members living with ALS and epilepsy. Seeing up close how much their day-to-day lives depended on the care and tools available to them is a big part of what led me to pursue medical device development. At Duke, I built my BME studies around two cores, bioelectricity and biomechanics. On the bioelectricity side, that meant circuits, signal processing, and embedded systems that combine hardware, firmware, and software. On the biomechanics side, I was drawn to how the body handles load, motion, and injury, and how devices like prosthetics and implants have to work with the body rather than against it. Most of the devices I find interesting live somewhere in between the two.

But the part of the job I enjoy isn't only the hands-on technical work. I like figuring out who a device is really for, turning what patients and users need into real design requirements, and making sure the final product actually fits into their lives. Medical devices can be frightening and intrusive, for patients and the people who love them, and I think a good one should feel calming rather than clinical. Duke's Innovation & Entrepreneurship certificate pushed me to think about hardware not just as something to design correctly, but as something that has to actually reach the people it's meant for.

I like work that's a mix of both the technical and the interpersonal, and I think understanding why something doesn't work is just as important as understanding why it does. More than anything, I try to learn fast and learn often.

Outside of engineering, I love Duke basketball. I play electric and acoustic guitar and collect vinyl records, I love getting outside to hike, and I'm a huge movie buff (enough that I took a class on horror film senior year).