Dilan Johnson Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Oversees the manufacturing and testing of 20+ carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites (CFRP) that are essential for driver safety and optimizing vehicle performance via increasing strength while decreasing weight
• Collaborates with the Chief Engineer and other sub-team leads to implement design improvements that involve composite manufacturing, such as creating a forged carbon fiber pedal system and a CFRP undertray
• Assesses the quality of CFRP parts by manufacturing ASTM coupons for each type of layup and performing mechanical tests
• Leads a 15+ member team in prepping, laying up, and post-processing CFRP parts in bi-weekly shop sessions

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Collaborates with the Associate Athletic Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to educate athletic staff and student-athletes about subconscious biases and harmful stereotypes
• Facilitates 2-hour workshops that address stereotypes in athletics about gender and sexuality
• Guides brainstorming activities with student-athletes about how to create a more inclusive team environment

El Segundo, California, United States

• Fabricated carbon nanotube (CNT) and silicon carbide (SiC) composites through hand layups followed by a 1000°C curing process for ultra-high temperature applications, such as spacecraft thermal protection systems and.
• Utilized various CNT purification treatments to improve polymer wettability and increase SiC infiltration
• Analyzed CNT/SiC composites with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) to evaluate the uniformity of SiC diffusion and removal of iron catalyst impurities

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Constructed 3D maps from aerial photographs captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and tested their robustness to JPEG compression for rapid mapping applications in rural areas for disaster response and.
• Designed a Python workflow that compressed JPEG datasets of 100+ photos at any level, constructed a 3D map, and quantified the map’s accuracy through comparisons with the uncompressed 3D map
• Conducted 10+ trials and concluded that this 3D mapping construction process was resistant to potential compression errors

La Jolla Shores, California, United States

• Utilized cryo-electron-tomography and Python to create a workflow for solving 3D models of mitochondrial structures
• Created weekly reports that outlined the progression of the research project and communicated these findings to the entire lab in the weekly meetings
• Informed fellow researchers of improvements to the structure workflow to ensure that the entire lab was implementing the best techniques
• Concluded the internship by presenting a 10-minute presentation about my research findings at the final lab meeting and at the Scripps Research Summer Symposium in front of 50+ online attendees