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United States

United States

Blacksburg

Designing and developing online course on MATLAB for purpose of educating undergraduate engineer students

Blacksburg

• Li-ion battery: coin cell and pouch cell assembly and disassembly, cycle test
• Flow battery: Intermediate temperature sodium-sulfur (Na-S) flow battery cell assembly and test (electrode material preparation and analysis, SEM, RAMAN, etc)
• Air battery: cell assembly and test setup design.
• Techno economical analysis of flow battery system.

Advance Material And Technology Laboratory

• Managed the experimental design and setup for conducted experiments involving metallic superhydrophobic and liquid infused non wetting surfaces.
• Designed Taguchi robust experiment designs to test how to improve manufacturing and testing processes.
• Over 200 pages of quarterly report written to the Department of Energy (DOE) and evaluated by the Funding agency.
• Data engineering and machine learning for prediction of corrosion rate of metallic surfaces with features such as different temperatures and corrosive salt chemical composition. Application of concentrated solar power.

United States

• Non-Precious metal catalyst synthesize for Oxygen Reduction
• Electrochemical characterization of catalyst by thin film Rotating disk electrode (RDE)voltammetry
• Catalyst characterization XPS, FESEM, XRD and TEM
• Electrospinning PAN matt, oxidize and carbonize as GDL for Fuel Cell
• PEM Fuel Cell assembly and test with Fuel Cell test station.
• Designed and built a four-electrode setup for electrical conductivity measurement of PAN matt.

• Biomass and Fuels Processing Laboratory/
• Non-Thermal plasma and its effects on fuel combustion & Air quality
• Experimental designed based on 2K factorial design, CCD and response surface analysis method for analytical tests on the performance of plasma reactor for reforming hydrocarbons and biofuels to hydrogen rich gas.
• Analyze Gas Chromatography data. And COMSOL reaction simulation

Remote

• DataScientist
• Anomaly detection in real-time for application in ultrasonic metal 3D printer
• Extract features from 1.3MHz accelerometer data in both Time & Time-Frequency domain
• Developing machine learning model/AI based algorithms to classify the defects based uponthe extracted features
• Predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the manufactured component.
• Digital Twin Topology: Using the data coming from the physics-based model and the datadriven system to make corrective real time predictions regarding the component structuralhealth (in process)

Blacksburg

Mentor students for “Virginia Tech Recreational Electric Vehicle”- Specifically helped the group on testing their battery packs (Samsung 18650 and A123Prismatic) over costume current profile (with 220 Amp max current) and recordtemperature data from the batteries during cycles at two different condition (naturaland forced convection

Blacksburg

• Setting up and managing the new Energy conversion research lab
• Setting up battery cyclers,
• Setup a whole benchtop pouch cell manufacturing line (including, dies, calendaring, cutters, stacker, ultrasonic welding, etc.)
• Maintaining Mbraun glove boxes, manual purging, regeneration to sensor, and pumpmaintenances.
• Lab safety management

University Of California, Santa Cruz

• Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators,Professional Development Program (PDP), University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Attending the Inquiry Institute, a Design Institute, and a facilitation workshop in order to prepare for a teaching opportunity

Sharif University Of Technology

• Center of Excellence in Energy Conversion (CEEC), Mechanical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology.
• Experimental Investigation of Sedimentation Specifications of Turbidity Currents

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering, 3.90

Battery and Fuel Cell technology/ Non-wetting surfaces

Data Science Certificate

Master'S Of Science, Hydrogen Production/ Biofuel, 3.96

Plasma reforming/ Hydrogen production/ Biofuel/ Response Surface analysis/ Gradient Descent

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of Board of Center student council,Sharif University of Technology.

Master Of Divinity (M.Div.)