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Aurora, Illinois

Slurry formulation for application in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) of integrated circuits.Design products and guide them through phases from R&D to pilot scale and handoff to HVM. Innovate new technologies for polishing, including evaluation of new slurry components, new lab analysis techniques, and mechanistic studies.Developed strong knowledge portfolio, both internal and through IP filings.Used strong communication skills, within internal team and when communicating with customers.Provided technical expertise to address issues with product portfolio including supply chain disruptions, regulatory changes, customer technical requests/problems, and displacement attempts by competitors.

Golden, Colorado

Developed skills to synthesize group IV and mixed metal oxide nanocrystals for application in solar energy conversion devices and control doping and surface passivation.Improved understanding of interplay between doping, carrier diffusion, and mesoscale architecture in bismuth vanadate thin film photoelectrodes.Discovered and developed novel mixed metal oxide materials for water oxidation.Elicidated the photoelectrochemical properties of tin nitride (Sn3N4) thin films.Investigated the enhanced photoelectrochemical stability of nanoporous etched "black silicon" during solar hydrogen production after a new platinum catalyst etching step.

West Lafayette, Indiana

Developed skills to solve complex energy conversion problems.Collaborated with several top scientists on research projects involving cutting edge TiO2 nanotube arrays and novel oxygen evolution catalysts.Designed experiments to elicidate the effects of surface treatments and catalysts on thin film photoelectrodes.Developed novel electrosynthesis routes to obtain thin films of several metal oxide semiconductors.Implemented a system to quantify solar O2 production of various semiconductors.Co-wrote a review article for the Materials Research Society Bulletin.Co-organized PINDU, a regional conference with over 100 attendees.Served as lab safety officer and waste management coordinator.

West Lafayette, Indiana

Mentored an undergraduate 6 hours per week, conducting graduate level research on various ternary metal vanadate oxides.

West Lafayette, Indiana

Oversaw recitation/lab sections of 24 students in general and inorganic chemistry.Taught a senior level inorganic lab in which 15 students designed their own experiments using primary literature.

Bowling Green, Ohio

Synthesized silver nanoparticles using polyol method.Electrodeposited aluminum nanowires using templated electrodeposition.Characterized these materials using electron microscopy (SEM and TEM).

Los Angeles, California

Developed polymer surface modification for retinal implant biocompatibility.

Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry