Wesley Hong Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Manager for a machine learning team for Amazon Devices hardware. My team is comprised of experts in machine learning, statistics, and economics. Our mission is to empower our customers to navigate complex decisions by inventing at the crossroads of new sensing technologies, machine learning, statistics, and behavioral science for emerging product categories. We drive technology and product roadmaps, develop algorithms for new sensor platforms, and work collaboratively with product managers and engineers to bring new devices to market.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

The Electrochemical Energy Lab studies materials for energy storage and conversion. We apply fundamental understanding of reaction mechanisms to design new materials for lithium storage and electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction, water splitting, methanol oxidation, and CO2 reduction.During my PhD, I developed strategies for evaluating new materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices. Using spectroscopy and applied statistics, I discovered relationships that can guide the development of materials with superior electrochemical performance in metal-air batteries, electrolyzers, and fuel cells. Part of my work focused on improving efficiencies in energy conversion and storage devices; a second part focused on understanding how these materials degrade and fail, as well as means to prevent it.The majority of my work was done in multinational collaborations across disciplines, including materials science, chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and engineering systems. A big part of these collaborations involved spending 20% of my time traveling to national laboratories to access user facilities.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Mechanics and Heat, and Modern Physics Laboratory

Stanford, Ca, Us

The Scintillator Materials Group studies the engineering of ceramic microstructure and defects to improve the performance of materials used in nuclear detector applications.Responsibilities:I optimized ceramic processing conditions for translucent ceramic scintillators. I designed and evaluated the densification, crystallite alignment, and optical absorption of SrI2 ceramics -- a high-efficiency scintillator that is difficult to grow in large single crystals due to its air sensitivity. As such, I established protocols for handling materials characterization of SrI2 ceramics in controlled environments. I also initiated a project designing and constructing a microwave cavity for reduced processing times of inorganic ceramics.

Stanford, Ca, Us

The Heilshorn Biomaterials Group designs materials that mimic the nano- and micro-scale order found in nature for applications in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, and energy.Responsibilities:I optimized the optical density (OD600) and IPTG concentration for improving scalability of elastin-like protein expression in E. coli cells -- a synthesis route for raw material necessary for gels in tissue engineering. I also determined the microstructure of cross-linked hydrogels using environmental scanning electron microscopy.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science And Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Materials Science And Engineering, Engineering Physics