• Conducting analysis of polymeric products for industry members including troubleshooting of raw materials, identification of particulate contaminants, and failure analysis utilizing a variety of analytical equipment including NMR, GPC, DSC, TGA, DMA, FTIR, UV-Vis, HPLC, SEM, and XPS.

Supervised, instructed and evaluated students in general chemistry laboratories; created lecture notes and demonstrated experimental techniques.

• Investigated copper-mediated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of conjugated 1,3-dienes (i.e., butadiene, isoprene, and dimethyl butadiene) via comprehensive kinetic studies under various reaction parameters including initiators, catalysts, ligands, solvents, temperatures, reagent ratios and ATRP procedures by evaluating rate of polymerization, molecular weight, PDI and % chain end functionality, resulting in 2 peer-reviewed journal articles (to be submitted soon), 11 proceedings, and 1 poster presentation. • Constructed comprehensive database of ATRP reaction conditions for the synthesis of well-defined polydienes including polybutadiene and polyisoprene via kinetic investigation.• Determined the best-fitted ATRP procedure for 1,3-dienes by demonstrating major side reaction involved in ATRP of 1,3-dienes.• Examined titanium-mediated degenerative chain transfer radical polymerization (DTP) of 1,3-dienes through kinetic studies under various reaction conditions, resulting in 1 book chapter and 10 proceedings.• Designed, synthesized and characterized well-defined polydienes, other various polyolefins, and functionalized polydiene-based complex macromolecular architectures (i.e., di-, tri-, and star block copolymers including SBR) using controlled radical polymerization methods including ATRP and Ti-mediated DTP ; characterized synthesized polymers using 1H, 13C, 2D 1H-1H COSY NMRs, FTIR, GPC, DSC, and TGA.• Constructed and developed Schlenk line-employed air-free sampling technique for kinetic experiment of low boiling point monomer polymerization. • Mentored, managed and evaluated research performance of 5 undergraduates and 3 graduate students.

Taught Biochemistry and Elements of Biochemistry laboratory courses and created lecture notes.

• Synthesized and investigated the nucleophilic reactivity of diphosphinated chromium Fischer carbene complex in comparison with those of analogous pentacarbonyl and monophosphinated Fischer carbenes; characterized synthesized complexes using 31P and 1H NMRs.

• Supervised, instructed and evaluated students in general chemistry laboratories; created lecture notes and demonstrated experimental techniques.