Built and led the R&D team in the Great Boston area (MZBio Inc).

E-field Assisted Assembly of Colloidal Particles into Ordered Nonclose-Packed Arrays• Assembled colloidal particles into ordered nonclose-packed array under alternating current (AC) electric field• Fixed the pattern by a sequence of DC pulses and monitored solvent evaporation process.• Programmed MATLAB scripts to track particles during the fixation process.• Modeled the vertical movement of colloids with numerical simulation and compared with the experiment results.• Mentored two research experience undergraduate (REU) students to further investigate the assembly of particles at the liquid-liquid (e.g., water-oil) interface.Smart Motor for Selective Cell Transportation• Built a MATLAB control magnetic field setup to steer the micro size motor for arbitrarily trajectory.• Fabricated quadripolar electrodes through lithography and thin film deposition for particles/cells polarizability measurement.• Programmed MATLAB scripts to analyze particle location and orientation from videos.Functionalized NP as Novel AntiAgglomerants for Hydrates• Synthesized and modified colloid particles (e.g., magnetic cubes, silica particles) for “Pickering” emulsion formation.• Built a cooling cell for in situ imaging of the hydrate agglomeration formation.• Characterized the contact angle of individual modified colloid particle through a novel interface stabilization method.• Built rapid cooling and heating cell with temperature and pressure data acquisition via Python & multiple DAQ cards for parti-cle kinetic inhibitor investigation.Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrate fabrication• Synthesized Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) particles with rough surface.• Fabricated colloidal particle monolayer via flowing coating.• Deposited thin gold or silver film via thermal evaporation or sputtering respectively.• Characterized thin film sample morphology and optical property.• Raman detection of ultra-low chemical with the fabricated samples.

Two semesters of Teaching Assistant for the graduate course: Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering•Graduate level course: introduce students mathematical concepts and tools involved in chemical engineering research such as ODEs, PDEs, Fourier analysis, vector calculus, numerical methods, and perturbation theory.• Prepared homework solutions, helped students with homework questions.

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics

Create transgenic Drosophila to monitor dorsal gene expression in live embryos. This involved microinjections of Drosophila embryos and molecular cloning to create plasmids. As part of this work I’m responsible for the training and supervision of an undergraduate research assistant.

Studied the gene pattern formation in Drosophila embryos by quantitative experimental approaches. This involved RNA probe-making, in situ hybridization, and confocal imaging.

Improved the original fermentation process to enhance the ALA(5-Aminolevulinic acid) productivity. This involved analyzing the population and component of the fermentation by spectrophotometer and HPLC, and defining the kinetics of various enzymes involved.

Teamed with four classmates, designed a methanol manufactory (500kt/a) as the final project. We simulated and optimized the synthesis of methanol by ASPEN Plus, distributed departments by AutoCAD, evaluated economical and environmental effects, documented the overall project and presented to the class.

As a leader of three-person project team,synthesized PMMA and tested its mechanical properties. We improved the student experiment about synthesizing PMMA as Teaching Assistants.