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San Jose, California, United States

Goleta, California, United States

- Pilot-scale optimization of vanillin production- Ran independent experiments to improve synthesis and purification of vanillin - Validated purity of vanillin pre-cursors via High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

• Lead a team of 10 officers to organize professional, academic, and social events for the undergraduate UCSB chemical engineering community

• Foster connections between undergraduate classes by leading the planning of the AIChE mentorship program and social events
• Organized our first in-person undergraduate research fair since the pandemic, with graduate researcher presenters from 10 different chemical engineering research groups and 70+ students in attendance
• Organized an engineering professional workshop hosted by HRL Laboratories chief scientific officer Dr. David Chow, where I was responsible for managing a $2500… Show more
• Organized an engineering professional workshop hosted by HRL Laboratories chief scientific officer Dr. David Chow, where I was responsible for managing a $2500 budget and served as the moderator for a 60+ student.
• Led the planning of the chemical engineering senior banquet, working with a $5000 budget and accomodating for 40 seniors and 10 faculty Show less

• Monitor all of AIChE funds, including our OSL account and Open funds account.
• Create a budget plan for the school year to fund our events that will be taking place.
• Apply to grants and outside funds in order to finance our workshops/events.

• Assisted senior officers in organizing AIChE professional events.
• Advertised AIChE events to the freshman chemical engineering class.

• Mentor 1st-year and transfer chemical engineering students taking Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design (CH E 5)
• Assist students in conducting experiments during their CH E 5 lab sections and advise them on lab safety

University Of California-Santa Barbara, California, United States

• Synthesize cathode materials of varying compositions via solid state synthesis for sodium ion battery applications
• Characterize samples using powder X-Ray Diffraction and perform Rietveld Refinement for phase identification and quantification.
• Assemble Swagelok cells to test battery performance via Galvanostatic cycling

University Of California-Santa Barbara, California, United States

• 10-week summer research internship funded by the National Science Foundation
• Prepared an oral and poster presentation to communicate scientific results to the intern class

University Of California-Santa Barbara, California, United States

• Worked in Dr. Gregory Su's research lab, which focuses on synchrotron characterization of soft materials
• Analyzed composition and aggregation of different foulants via synchrotron Near Edge X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy and Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering (RSoXS)
• Ran water flux experiments on prepared membranes to understand how fouling affected membrane performance
• Communicated summer results in the form of a research poster and written report

• Organize professional, academic, and social events under a team of 7 officers.
• Manage the entire SASE balance and monitor all financial statements.
• Serve as SASE’s main point of contact for UCSB’s Office of Student Life (OSL) and Associated Students (AS).

• Assisted Treasurer with day-to-day tasks.
• Met with local vendors to source our merchandising line.
• In charge of coming up with and sending prizes for weekly general body meetings.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

• Worked in a team of 14 people as part of the programming committee in preparation for the SASE West Regional Conference, a professional conference which hosted for 268 attendees.
• Brainstormed workshops and panel topics that would take place during the conference.
• Collaborated with conference sponsors to guide them through their panel/workshop.
• Served as the main handler and technical coordinator for professional workshops, panels, and networking sessions.

• Worked in Professor Ramana Chintalapalle's lab in the Center for Advanced Materials Research at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) as part of the PREM (Partnership for Research and Education Materials) program.
• Project Title: "Synthesis and Characterization of Indium-Doped Gallium Oxide for Optoelectronic Applications".
• Performed Ceramic Solid State Synthesis to synthesize Indium-doped Gallium oxide samples.
• Characterization techniques utilized: X-Ray Diffraction… Show more Worked in Professor Ramana Chintalapalle's lab in the Center for Advanced Materials Research at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) as part of.
• Characterization techniques utilized: X-Ray Diffraction, UV-Visible Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.
• Received "Best Presentation" at the COURI 2021 Summer Symposium under the "Engineering, Computational, & Applied Sciences" category. Show less

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers GPA: 3.90/4.00

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