• Designing millimeter-scale integrated circuit (IC) chip to convert low-power supply into high voltage output optimized for size, weight, and power efficiency• Concepts Applied: Commercial Circuit Simulations, Size/Weight Device Models, IC Chip Design• Skills: LTSpice, Cadence, Circuit Modelling, Breadboarding with Discrete Components• Principal Investigator of Lab & Mentor: Professor Gage Hills

• Fabricating and characterizing multi-layer inverse opals with advanced transport and optical properties• Concepts Applied: Structural Color, Soft Matter Physics, Colloidal Forces and Crystal Templating• Skills: Self-Assembly of Inverse Opals (Sol-Gel Co-Assembly and Infiltration Methods)• Research Mentor: Dr. Haichao Wu• Principal Investigator of Lab: Professor Joanna Aizenberg

• Manufacturing novel electro-adhesion pads for the biologically inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot (HAMR), with application towards surveying inaccessible terrains • Concepts Applied: Solid Mechanics (Normal and Shear Forces), Electrical Circuits • Skills: Laser Cutting, Soldering, LabVIEW• Research Mentor: Jennifer Shum• Principal Investigator of Lab: Professor Robert Wood

• Investigating metal-assisted catalysis of clathrate hydrate formation through molecular dynamics simulations, with applications in greenhouse gas sequestration• Concepts Applied: Thermodynamics, Newtonian and Statistical Mechanics, Classical Nucleation Theory, Crystal Lattice Structures, Density Functional Theory (DFT)• Skills: GROMACS (Molecular Dynamics Software), Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD), Linux and C++ Coding, ADF (DFT Software), Parallelization on Supercomputing… Show more • Investigating metal-assisted catalysis of clathrate hydrate formation through molecular dynamics simulations, with applications in greenhouse gas sequestration• Concepts Applied: Thermodynamics, Newtonian and Statistical Mechanics, Classical Nucleation Theory, Crystal Lattice Structures, Density Functional Theory (DFT)• Skills: GROMACS (Molecular Dynamics Software), Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD), Linux and C++ Coding, ADF (DFT Software), Parallelization on Supercomputing Platforms• Mentor: Dr. David Wu Show less

• Synthetic biology student organization serving as Harvard’s chapter of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition. Project involved computationally engineering receptors to detect clinically relevant biomarkers. • Concepts Applied: Protein Engineering, Directed Evolution, Protein Structure Prediction, Receptor-Ligand Interactions, Signal Transduction, Structural Analysis, Evolutionary Analysis, Bacteria and Yeast Transformation, Fluorescence Microscopy•… Show more • Synthetic biology student organization serving as Harvard’s chapter of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition. Project involved computationally engineering receptors to detect clinically relevant biomarkers. • Concepts Applied: Protein Engineering, Directed Evolution, Protein Structure Prediction, Receptor-Ligand Interactions, Signal Transduction, Structural Analysis, Evolutionary Analysis, Bacteria and Yeast Transformation, Fluorescence Microscopy• Skills: AlphaFold, BioPython, PyMOL• Research Mentor: Piyush Nanda• Faculty Mentor: Professor Jia Liu Show less