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Pittsburgh, PA, US

Studying under the direction of Dr. Erica Fuchs, Dr. Valerie Karplus, and Dr. Jeremy Michalek, focusing on innovations in electric vehicle battery materials and subsequent effects on supply chains and geopolitics. NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Somerville, Massachusetts, US

Spøttrup, Midtjylland, DK

Cambridge, MA, US

• Creating a series of long-form audio documentaries to approachably explain the significance of the industrial sector in terms of emissions, including “The Significance of Industrial Decarbonization,” and “Clean Tech.
• Conducted ~one dozen half-hour to hour-long interviews with experts in the space

Cambridge, MA, US

• Collected and aggregated electrical consumption data for nineteen customer personas in sixteen model city environments, building on the DOE TMY3 load profiles database
• Created web scraper for accessing and interpreting rate case documents, classifying all changes in tariff rates in Utah and Pennsylvania from 2005 to present

Cambridge, MA, US

• Teaching assistant for largest chemistry GIR (general institute requirement, MIT core class, 550 students in Fall 2019) at MIT
• Directly taught one recitation of 21 students as well as multiple exam review sessions and weekly office hours, as well as writing and grading weekly quizzes and exams
• Designed and organized the final exam

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Managed external development of transient modeling simulations of our energy storage plant system, helping to accerate the project from 3 months behind to on time
• Interfaced with Malta leadership to validate transient and steady-state modeling results
• Developed scripts for internal data processing, analysis, and visualization of transient model simulations
• Hired as first software/data-focused employee since company spun out of GoogleX in winter 2018

Boston, MA, US

• Worked directly with managing partners to refactor and optimize 30+ disparate investment data flows into one report mechanism, reducing time spent generating reports of investment analyses and projections from multiple.
• Built two custom "full-stack" desktop-based "database application" solutions with Python/MySQL and Excel VBA for secure local control and manipulation of dataand projections from multiple weeks to one simple user.
• Rapidly learned database architectures and programming while scoping the technical feasibility of the project with managing partners

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Worked directly with the C-suite to quantitatively identify top performing accelerator participants within each cohort and industry group from MassChallenge's then 1200+ startups
• Devised several mathematical models and Python scripts with emphasis on outlier analyses to score and rank accelerator participants via several key metrics, with an additional a nine-tiered "Bond Rating" System

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Designed neighborhood-scale models and visualizations of LED street lighting interventions to the hundredth lumen within the context of pedestrian-vehicle safety to assist Philips Lighting's efforts to improve the.
• Developed an open source, multidimensional, multivariable model optimizer and visualization applet in Processing

South Jordan, Utah, US

• Strengthened website search engine-optimization with graphics demonstrating use cases of business diagramming software; delivered project three weeks ahead of schedule
• Developed content for "Flowchart of the Week", landing pages, and other marketing initiatives

• Constructed, analyzed, and interpreted statistical models of Arctic meltwater ponds on sea ice using bond and site percolation theory
• Implemented depth-first pathfinding algorithm and computer vision techniques to determine the critical values such as the area threshold, correlation value, and others
• 4th Award, Environmental Science Category, Intel International Science & Engineering Fair

• Did research in glacial dynamics under Dr. Glenn Flierl, MIT EAPS Department, and Colin Meyer, Harvard SEAS Department
• Analyzed glacial depth data to model frictional forces in Antarctic ice flows

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Engineering And Public Policy

Bachelors Degree, Materials Science And Engineering (3A), Double Minor In Computer Science And Energy Studies

International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient