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San Jose, California, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Generate and execute innovative ideas towards improved safety, energy/power density, and cycle life of Li-ion batteries• Responsible for the oversight and technical direction for a small team of engineers and scientists

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Contributing to the development of Li-ion battery architecture advancements on a pilot manufacturing level

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• Established and managed international research collaboration between ENI (Italy) and MIT focused on electrochemical CO2 reduction to generate high-energy fuels at ambient temperatures and pressures• Led or co-led 18 synchrotron-based studies at US national laboratories to investigate surface chemistry and structure at the solid-gas/liquid interface on metal oxide (electro)catalysts• Demonstrated first successful implementation of oxide-semiconductor photocathode with 13% photon-to-hydrogen efficiency for photoelectrochemical water electrolysis under ambient conditions

• Developed customized thin film fabrication method to grow ferroelectric thin films by molecular beam epitaxy followed by in-situ and surface analysis to assess high quality of films• Provided technical troubleshooting of multiple home-built ultra-high vacuum systems in research group

• Designed and synthesized hybrid polymer-vanadium nanostructures for electrodes of lithium-ion batteries with demonstrated discharge capacity improvement of over 90% over non-hybrid chemistries• Co-authored two publications on research work in ACS Nano and Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

• Modified existing palladium catalyst reactor in order to conduct experiments on the reactor's temperature-dependence and particle size-dependence. • Operated the palladium catalyst reactor connected to a mass spectrometer to determine the molecular composition of the reactor products.• Developed chemical kinetic models of palladium catalyst system using numerical methods in Matlab

• Compiled an aligned database of Helvella genus DNA sequences• Analyzed evolution of Helvella species by processing the database of Helvella DNA sequence with bioinformatics software• Presented poster at Mycological Society of America Meeting 2012 titled "Ecological diversification of saddle fungi: Helvella indicated by phylogeny and secondary structure of ITS sequences from annotated collections and environmental samples."

Juelich, De

• Characterized the desulfurization of jet fuel using adsorption and pervaporation techniques• Determined thermodynamic parameters of jet fuel adsorption through the linear fit of the experimental data with the Langmuir Isotherm• Optimized purification of jet fuel for application in fuel cell system• Presented research at annual DAAD-RISE program conference to over 300 students and research mentors

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Automated semiconductor parameter analyzers using LABVIEW for testing of transistor prototypes.• Presented work and findings for the High School Summer Research Participation Program (now BLIPs)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Materials Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering