Patrick Chao is a member of VSCL starting in Fall 2026 as a part of the Aerospace Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, working on the KAMS project. He is a senior pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering with minors in Mathematics and Chinese. During the Summer 2025, he worked as a research intern at the University of Patras in Greece, and he will be working as an engineering intern at NuCube Energy for Summer 2026.