Ken Ho Email & Phone Number

Port Hueneme, Ca, Us

Port Hueneme, Ca, Us

Oversees STEM, Tech-Bridge, ONRG engagement, and Naval Innovation Science and Engineering programs at NAVFAC. Participates in leadership board to develop future technical capabilities, strategic plans, and technology roadmaps. Engages with the NRDE in aligning and collaborating on research investments for faster and more efficient technology transitioning to the Navy.

Reach out to regional scientists and academia to form collaborations with US researchers in basic science. Responsible for advising senior leadership of research activity and players in power and energy within the region. Help develop strategy for engagement with scientists and academia.Technologies investigated: MMC high voltage power converters, Power HIL simulation, wing in ground effect vehicles, hydrogen storage, LiS batteries, grid studies.

- Technical lead for RDT&E efforts in energy, efficiency, and renewable technologies within the public works department at EXWC.- EXWC technical lead and point of contact for energy storage technologies.- Write RDT&E proposals, manage funded research projects, and support local NAVFAC PW and UEM with energy technology test and evaluation projects.- SBIR TPOC on "High energy & power density electrical energy storage device"​, "Low emissions waste to energy system"​, and "Modular building level micro-grids".- On going work with Vehicle to Grid charging stations, DC micro-grids, DC solid state lighting, small deployable waste to energy systems, micro-grid testing and simulation, battery storage, liquid air energy storage, life cycle cost analysis of energy technologies, and development of financing approaches for large scale energy storage systems.

Corrosion mitigation, ocean front materials solutions, new program development, and energy efficiency solutions. - Implement remote monitoring on impressed current cathodic protection systems. Developing energy harvesting power modules for remote monitoring units. - Ultracapacitors for electrical energy storage - FRP Composite for corrosion and wear resistance. Thermoplastic composites for low cost applications.- Planar transformers for power conversion

Niskayuna, New York, Us

Project I: Electro Chemical Discharge Machining (ECDM)·Managed a team of 4 engineers in developing an ECDM system to mill GE gas turbine components made of nickel super-alloys. ·Directed the retrofit of a conventional milling center to a full functioning ECDM system.·Introduced innovative signal processing and monitoring to correlate processed signals to actual ECDM machining condition in real-time.·Establish strategy for tool compensation, tool routine, and measurement techniques to delivery highest accuracy to date for the ECDM process.·Initiated and lead interlab effort to develop a high current switching power supply for ECDM that would lower cost, reduce size, and provide more precision than current vendor supplied PS.·Published 4 internal reports and 2 patent disclosures related to the ECDM technologyOther projects ·Investigated solutions to production issues involved with fabrication of thin film CdTe solar cells and alternative thin film deposition processes for increase cell efficiency. ·Investigated integration of a self-powered strain sensor with an energy harvesting wireless transmitter for a self-sustaining wireless strain sensor in remote monitoring applications.·Investigated micro machining processes for microfluidic and X-ray detector components for GE healthcare.·Benchmarked composites research and industry in China to establish strategy for GE composites research in Shanghai.

·Part of the corrosion expertise group within the Navy that provided support for cathodic protection of oil pipelines at naval bases, as well as diagnosis of corrosion failure causes.·Help test and evaluate high temperature concrete and gasket materials for use on aircraft pavements for the F35 fighter. ·Examined the use of insurance climate risk models to quantify the risks associated with severe climate changes on navy infrastructure and its ability to project power.·Wrote proposals for funding from SERDIP and RFP topics for SBIR’s.

Startup company, co-founded with UCLA professor. ·Entrepreneurial experience with running 4 on going SBIR projects with a total funding of nearly $2 million during a 3 years period. ·Developed new business opportunities, wrote over 20 proposals, and successfully obtained 8 SBIR awards.·Managed a team of 3 engineers, collaborated with external universities, companies and government labs in working on developing novel applications for functional materials that included: solid state microcooling, high frequency hydraulic motors, thin film NiTi medical devices, sonar transducers, and passive vibration damping.

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering & Mat. Sci