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Berkeley, Ca, Us

※ Industrial customers include:Google X, Assembly Biosciences, Zymergen, Antheia, Caspr Biotech, MycoWorks, Concentric, PowBio, Clara Foods, Zymochem, Joywell, Visolis, Sugarlogix, Ruby Bio, Illium Technologies, Pow Bio, Almond Board of California, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., etc.※ Government collaborators include:Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Idaho National Laboratory (INL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), California Energy Commission (CEC), etc.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Leadership and management● Act as the analytical lab lead, managing a team of Research Associates, Research Assistants, and Interns.● Supervise and organize team's workflow to coordinate with external and internal projects.● Serve in the department committee of equipment procurement, team schedules, and hiring.● Lab documentation and inventory management including instrument accessories, labware and consumables.Customer service● Be the direct contact of analytical lab and worked with internal team and external customers in industry, academia, and government.● Method development and validation for 14 analytical projects including fermentation, catalysis, product purification/recovery, and material characterization.● Lead analytical support to 16 upstream and downstream projects, including tech transfer and round robin study.Technical skills● Work closely with GC-FID, GC-MS, HPLC, UHPLC, HPAE-PAD (Ion Chromatography), FTIR, UV-Vis, SEM, and TGA in fermentation products, fuels & chemicals, and natural materials.● Extensive experience in instrument maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairing (e.g. HPLC, GC-FID, GC-MS)● Hands-on experience with Doneix (Chromeleon), Agilent (Chemstation), Shimadzu (LabSolutions).

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Research & Development● Lead projects in development of biobased chemicals, fuels, and materials.● Study the chemical recycling of waste plastics.● Prepare research proposals with collaborators in academia and industry.● Designed, conducted, and published 5 research projects in biomass deconstruction, chemical synthesis, and product purification/recovery. ※ Awards:Certificate of Recognition (2020) - Dedication to research related to SARS CoV-2 and Covid19.SPOT recognition award (2020) - teamwork in scaling up a key component of Caspr Biotech's test for COVID-19.SPOT recognition award (2019)- outstanding teamwork for intricate Antheia project at 2L and 300L scale.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

● Process development and simulation● Techno-economic assessment● Waste-to-fuel process● Plastic upcycling● Mentorship

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Managed 4 projects and supervised 9 research assistants/interns, acting as the project leader in safety orientation, process development, experimental design, lab training, and data analysis.• Served as the lab manager in developing analytical assay, preparing SOP, and maintaining analytical equipment.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked on improving the biochemical conversion efficiency for better sugars, fuels, and value-added chemical yields from plant biomass --- a part of a $40 million USDA grant.➣ Process development and evaluation:• Improved biochemical conversion efficiency by increasing the sugar recovery from plant biomass.• Investigated the fermentation of pretreated cellulosic biomass into fuels and value-added chemicals.• Optimized thermochemical conversion of biomass for bio-oil production and upscaled the process from micro-reactor to bench scale reactor.• Evaluated the techno-economics for industrial bio-processes by applying process modeling/simulation and techno-economic analysis.➣ Analytical chemistry:• Developed analytical chemistry methods (HPLC, GCMS, FTIR, ICP, Raman) to characterize different natural products.

Beijing, Bj | Beijing, Cn

• Developed process for industrial organic acid fermentation using R. oryaze from shaker flask level to 3 L bioreactor.• Assessed enzyme kinetics and enzymatic properties of fumarase from recombined E.coli.• Elucidated the metabolic pathways of Rhizopus oryaze during C5 and C6 fermentation.• Optimized the cell culture of Chlorella vulgaris and increased the biomass accumulation and lipid production.• Enhanced the recovery of oleochemicals from microalgae by developing and comparing different disruption and purification methods for product extraction.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biochemical Engineering

Stanford Lead Executive Education Program

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Biochemical Engineering (Baccalaureate Honors)

Master'S Degree, Computational And Applied Mathematics

Program Certificate Of São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp) In Bioenergy, Brazil

High School