The people building D.R.E.A.M.S.

Kyle studies Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Robotics at Northeastern University, class of 2029, and grew up in Burlingame, California.

The first D.R.E.A.M.S was built in London and shown at the inaugural Creators' Showcase at Northeastern University London. Matthew built its hull, and Kyle did the bridge that ties the hulls together, the propulsion system and the winch. On V2 Kyle built the hull, fiberglassed it and did all of the electronics. On V3 he has become more of a design lead: he helps with every part of the boat, and he does the PCBs and the machining.

Before the boat there was combat robotics. With Team DHM, from 2023 to 2025, he designed around ten robots across five weight classes, placed 4th nationally in Plastic Antweight in 2024, and helped the club to 16 podium finishes over five events. Many of the parts were titanium, AR500 steel, aluminum or carbon fiber, so besides 3D printing he designed parts to be CNC machined and laser cut. That's where he learned design for manufacturing. Losing a match, working out why and coming back with a fix is still how he builds.

Away from the boat he has built a 3D-printed robot that finds its own way through a maze, a printed RC plane and ceramics tools anyone can print for free. Next is a five-axis arm, three of its joints on cycloidal gearboxes, that will one day collect samples from the deck.

Matthew is a Mechanical Engineering student at Northeastern University with minors in Electrical Engineering and Business, on the PlusOne accelerated B.S./M.S. track. He spent his first year in London through the London Scholar Program, where he and Kyle built the first D.R.E.A.M.S.

On D.R.E.A.M.S he co-leads the mechanical and structural design in SolidWorks, including a Van Veen grab sediment sampler delivered with a full drawing package and BOM. He also handles planning and communications.

He has interned twice at Quanta Labs in Santa Clara, most recently on the shock and vibration team in summer 2026. There he ran more than 75 tests for aerospace, defense and industrial clients and built a Flask and SQLite app to track an inventory of more than 125 accelerometers. He is aiming for a career in aerospace, defense or Formula 1.