• Leading hardware-biology integration through automation.• Developing platforms for high-throughput microfluidic particle formation, biologics screening, and scale-up biomanufacturing using LabVIEW, sensors, actuators, FPGA, and CNC manufacturing.• Managing engineering projects in a pre-seed-stage start-up of 6 full-time people.

• Used robotics, programmable microfluidics, machine vision and LabVIEW to develop an automated platform for vitrifying oocytes publishing in Lab on Chip and filing patent.• Completed entrepreneurship programs at the Engine and NSF Spark Regional I-Corps program for the commercialization of above platform. Conducted 60+ interviews, developed business model and milestones.• Led a collaboration between MIT and Biomarin Pharmaceutical to develop a new nanomechanical method for characterizing viruses in gene therapy, publishing in ACS Nano Letters, featured in cell & gene and AzoNano.• Studied nanoparticles and cells via microfluidic experiments and COMSOL simulations, leading a team of 5 junior scientists, publishing in Nature Communications, ACS sensors, Nature Methods, Nature Communications.• Researched on FDA-funded project for process control of bio-manufacturing of Adeno-associated viruses (AAV), publishing review articles in Molecular Therapy Methods & Clinical Development and Biotechnology Advances.• Gave invited talks at conferences (Bioprocess International, Bioprocess Summit, PEGS Boston) and companies (Waters Corporation, ThermoFisher Scientific). Served as workshop leader in gene therapy conferences.

- Developed instrumentation prototypes for new 3d-printer architecture systems, beyond mainstream printing platforms, like novel thermofluid methods to control the parameters of the 3-d printing process.- Developed reduced-order models and finite-element algorithms to numerically predict, reverse-engineer and optimize the 3-d printing process.- Developed formulations of photopolymerizable resins with new properties.

• Developed microfluidic platforms for manipulating water droplets using logic operations and magnetic fields. Published first-author journal papers in Nature Physics and Soft Matter (Cover article) as well as Physical Review E. PhD Work highlighted in The New York Times, BBC News, Stanford News, Wired and other media. • Presented work in seven conferences. Mastered concepts of microhydrodynamics and surface science.• Filed two patents, US2013/056821 (Sep 13), S12-313/USSN 62/164,323 (May 15).• Gained hands-on experience in instrumentation (Arduino microcontrollers, sensors) and rapid prototyping.• Developed soft lithography clean-room skills, created tools for image analysis/data processing, numerical models.• Conducted biophysics research on human parasites: conducted high-speed video biological experiments, employed PIV techniques to analyze the swimming dynamics of the parasite causing the Schistosomiasis disease. Published work in Nature Physics, also featured in Stanford News, Physics Today and other media.• Co-developed a low cost (<20 cents), hand-powered centrifuge for disease diagnostics in developing countries, capable of speeds up to 125,000 revolutions per minute. Published this work in Nature Biomedical Engineering, featured in Stanford News, the Economist and other media.

- Has taught over 25 on-line workshops about writing compelling statement of purpose letters for graduate school applications.- Organized streaming sessions where 35 students/professionals from all over the world have given weekly on-line talks about their experiences from academia/industry.- Organized 2 info seminars for graduate studies abroad with an attendance of 1500 students for each.

- Worked in the context of European Project NEWAC (New Aeroengine Core Concepts).- Led a manufacturing team of five engineers to develop an experimental counter-rotating axialcompressor test-rig (See CAD model and 3-D animation). Applied machine-shop skills and lab electronics.- Performed numerical simulations using a commercial package (Fluent) for Computational FluidMechanics (CFD) to study the flow in a counter-rotating axial compressor.