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Technical highlight -- studied and developed:* Erosion in jet engines due to ingestion of dust when taking off / landing on unpaved runways (MS topic)* Optimal internal combustion engine for high fuel efficiency and low pollutants emission (Ph.D. topic)* A tiny rocket engine both mono- and bi-propellant, for satellite attitude control and station keeping (see patents below)* A safe inflator for automotive airbag that made the old and dangerous sodium-azide inflators obsolete (see patents below) -- it made a lot of money to my former employer* Modeling and diagnostics instrumentation in high power chemical lasers cavity* Enabling technology, the VariAp® mechanism for 3rd generation forward looking infrared systems (see DoD award)* True color night vision fused with thermal IR, in realtime processing* Airborne navigation in GPS denied environment* Ultra-fast sensors and instrumentation (resolving spectral, spatial, high temporal) for observing fast events such as missile intercepts, explosion, hypervelocity impact* Sensors for rocket plume characterization, and for passive ranging * Miniaturized hyperspectral sensors for ground and airborne applications including multi-rotor copters* Hadamard Transform Imaging Spectroscopy (HTIS)* The use of hyperspectral technology in precision farming for plant health monitoring, the classification of plant stress sources, and yield predictions; combined into GIS* Automated Target Recognition (ATR)* EO/IR sensors and real-time processing for precision guided munitions* Indoors navigation using Smartphone* Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) (across the air) at Gbps speed* Space-based sensors for Kill Assessment* Many other technologies and systems

Listed skills include Sensors, Systems Engineering, Simulations, Engineering Management, and 46 others.