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Redwood City, California, US

Redwood City, California, US

Redwood City, California, US

Redwood City, California, US

• Partnered with customers in the materials industry to leverage Citrine's artificial intelligence platform and custom machine learning tools to accelerate material design and discovery.
• Led customer-facing technical team for one of Citrine's lead customers, accounting for $600k in annual revenue.
• Presented results of data mining and machine learning experiments directly to customer domain experts.
• Constructed, refined, and interpreted machine learning models of material processes.
• Built data analysis, data mining, visualization, and ML interpretability tools as part Citrine product development.
• Authored novel methodology of visualizing AI capabilities across a design space (see publications).

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Prof. Yaroslava Yingling – Computational Soft Materials Group, Dept. of Materials Science and EngineeringUncertainty Quantification of Atomistic Partial Charges
• Performed statistical analysis on the effect of charge parameters on liquid-phase atomistic MD calculations
• Incorporated uncertainty quantification and machine learning for surrogate model construction using Gaussian process regressionFunctionalized Nanoparticles for Nanoscale Filtration
• Proposed project and received funding from NC Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) and North Carolina Sea Grant (NCSG) to investigate novel filtration architecture composed of functionalized nanoparticles
• Developed atomistic MD simulation protocol to simulate nanoscale filtration and predict efficacy for salt absorptionLigand Adsorption on Silica Nanoparticle Surfaces
• Investigated nanoscale ligand condensation on silica nanoparticles for drug delivery applications

Cambridge, MA, US

Lead experimental design to improve properties and application-specific efficacy of thin-film chemical deposition processes.Communication with customers regarding coating capabilities and their specific coating needs.Optimization of coating materials and recipes to meet said customers needs.Design, supervision, and analysis of various methods of thin-film.

Cambridge, MA, US

Participated in experimental planning to improve properties and application-specific efficacy of thin-film deposition processes.Scaled research-level process changes to production level systems and qualified efficacy.Designed, built and maintained R&D chemical vapor deposition coating systems.Planned and installed OTPO PC-based process control systems.

Cambridge, MA, US

Independently operated iCVD (initiated chemical vapor deposition) systems for PTFE (Teflon) coatings as well as oCVD (oxidative CVD) research systems for conductive polymer coatingsAssisted in the design of experiments used for oCVD research projectsAided in the installation of a new manufacturing satellite facility for GVD South in South CarolinaAssisted.

Prepared samples and standards for analysis as well as reagentsAnalyzed samples in a variety of matrices, using chromatographic and spectroscopic methodsAssisted with system setup and general of testing systems.Responsible for accurately documenting raw data and observationsAdhered to the US FDA and US EPA Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and US FDA current.

Maintained and operated large manufacturing machines, including winder, resin system, and Pesmel (wrapping system) used for the preparation of our final productDiagnosed and repaired flaws in production of materialContributed to a smooth transition to new computer data-base operating system Optimill

Demolished old or flawed areas of structuresInstalled framing, windows, doors, drywall, insulation and tileAssisted in the planning and construction of new additions as well as the renovation of residential buildings

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Materials Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Chemical Engineering

Education record