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Huangpu District, Shanghai, Cn

College Park, Maryland, Us

o Leading the design, assembly, and testing of several novel drone concepts including thrust vectoring quadcopter and thrust vectoring bicopter designs.o Managing the supply chain for several products working directly with manufacturers.o Leading a team of 3-4 engineers in charge of the hardware design and testing of several drone platforms.o Leading and flying product demonstrations for potential customers around the world.o Responsible for running and maintaining the rapid prototyping shop.

College Park, Maryland, Us

o Assisted with the design, assembly, manufacturing, and testing of a 3D printed drone designed to fly autonomously in dark, GPS-denied, confined spaces.o Led the testing and development of a tethered drone as a remote lighting solution.o Tested an unmanned vertical takeoff and landing tiltrotor aircraft in a low speed wind tunnel, successfully gathering data for the development of a flight control system for the aircraft.o Created light-weight parts for a lifting shell body as a member of Carbon Composite Layup Team using Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM). Manufactured parts for a flight model and a wind tunnel model.

Adelphi, Md, Us

o Used a Large Eddy Simulation with a high fidelity mesh and tabulated chemistry to compare how two new fuels affect Lean Blow Out in a jet combustion engine. o Conducted parametric studies to determine optimal meshing, time step, spray characteristics, and number of cores on a high power Linux cluster to ensure best run times.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

o Coordinating with test pilots, airport staff, and flight technologists to plan and design a course to assess the handling qualities of the V280 over several Mission-Task-Elements in accordance with ADS-33E-PRF.o Leading meetings with groups of flight technologists to create the most recent version of the V280 limitations document.

Getafe, Madrid, Es

o Optimized and validated a Blade Element Momentum algorithm in MATLAB considering multiple correction factors.o Generated and compared power coefficient curves of several wind turbines given physical models of their blades. o Contributed to the creation of a new model to predict wind turbine power coefficient values given tip speed ratio and blade pitch. Published in IET Renewable Power Generation: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2019.1162. See Accomplishments section for an abstract

o Collaborated with graduate student to redesign the mounting system for airfoils in a Mach 6 reflected shock tunnel. o Worked through the entire project life cycle including: discussion of the idea, multiple iterations of a CAD design, idea proposal, part research and acquisition, and manufacturing of the design with machine shops on campus.

o Independently wrote a program in Java to track individual seed particles between two GoPro camera views to calculate the three-dimensional velocities of each particle over timeo Designed to allow a user to visualize the flow around an airfoil in a wind tunnelo Project was designed to be a proof of concept that proved to be cheaper compared to traditional particle image velocimetry systems for large wind tunnels.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

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