● Responsible for developing thermodynamic models of power plant architectures to support design iterations of Nuclear SMRs.● Responsible for the verification and validation of engineering analysis codes to support regulatory compliance requirements.● Responsible for developing in-house tools to optimize plant designs and carry out sensitivity studies.

● Own and lead the thermal design and mitigationof PCB and cold-plate assemblies, chips andstructures by developing thermal FEA modelsand submodels in ANSYS Icepak andWorkbench.● Support the design and sizing of system levelstructures by building 1D fluid network models inSINDA/FLUINT.● Support the development and validation ofthermal models with theoretical hand-calculations and thermal test data.● Assess Thermal Interface Materials, design finsfor cold-plates and design conduction paths forhigh heat-flux parts.

● Used ANSYS APDL on Linux parallel clusterenvironments to build, run and analyze thermalFEA models of gas turbine static enginesections for secondary flow paths to supportprogram IPTs and Tiger Teams.● Developed MATLAB tool to extract CFD modelflow output and interpolate into Thermal FEAinput to increase convection modeling fidelity.● Implemented machine learning and numericaloptimization methods in MATLAB and PythonScikit Learn on Linux parallel clusterenvironments using Agile to validate thermalmodels with transient engine test data.● Supported Integrated Product Teams (IPTs)during all design phases, as well as testing onproduction engines.

Researched electron orbits undergoing Electron Cyclotron Heating.Studied various numerical schemes to obtain high fidelity results.Developed code to simulate electron trajectories inside in-house developed plasma sensors.Utilized Git as primary vehicle of version control during code development.