Sydney, Australia −33.8688, 151.2093
I'm Jasper, an ANU engineering grad based in Sydney. I spent the last few years shaping solar car aerodynamics, laying up carbon fibre, and building machine learning that spots bushfires early. Since May 2026 I've been an engineering specialist at AirTrunk. Here's most of what I've been working on, outside of work.
SC4 Monty · drag to orbit
Designed, simulated and manufactured an ultra-low-drag catamaran-style solar car body using SolidWorks CAD, ANSYS Fluent and carbon-fibre composites.
↳ CdA down about 20% vs the previous car
For my Honours Project, two unsupervised GRU-based VAEs on eCO₂ and TVOC. A compact GGM-VAE and a Hybrid STFT-CNN-GRU-VAE both detect all ignition events in about four minutes on average; the GGM-VAE wins on F1 and false positives and is deployed on an STM32WLE5 LoRa node.
↳ All eight test ignitions caught, first detection about 4 minutes
Carbon bulkheads and interfaces that tie every subsystem into the shell with clean load paths and service access.
↳ 20 g battery restraint passed with straps, not frames
A four bar canopy hinge that clears the shell and gets every driver out within the 15 second egress rule.
↳ All drivers out inside the 15 second rule
Hinges and carbon stays that tilt the solar array to 60° for morning and evening charging at roadside stops.
↳ 60° tilt for morning and evening charging
Vacuum formed clear covers for brake, indicator and running lights, sized hard against the rules to stay small, light and easy to blend into the aerobody.
↳ Clear PETG replaced the old opaque fibreglass
