Leading battery modeling team to develop next generation modeling approaches and improve model performance.Zitara Technologies (YC S20) builds battery management software for companies with large deployments. Customers across industries (EVs, satellites, renewable energy storage) rely on Zitara's cloud-ready embedded solutions for advanced battery management.We're hiring! Please reach out directly if you're interested in accelerating decarbonization by making batteries safer and more profitable.

Zitara Technologies (YC S20) builds battery management software for companies with large deployments. Customers across industries (EVs, satellites, renewable energy storage) rely on Zitara's cloud-ready embedded solutions for advanced battery management.We're hiring! Please reach out directly if you're interested in accelerating decarbonization by making batteries safer and more profitable.

Batteries and Machine Learning• Battery platform project (BEEP) for high throughput battery testing and machine learning• Automated data pipeline for rapid testing and optimization of batteries

Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery (AMDD)• Applying big data approaches to materials science• Machine learning algorithms for rapid discovery and analysis of energy related material

A stealth company focusing on electric propulsion and personal aviation• Lead battery cell development for high energy, high power battery packs• Conceiving, developing, and implementing quality control and manufacturing software• Working with large scale manufacturing partners, and providing failure analysis and tracking

Battery development for high power and high energy density application• Battery material evaluation and testing going from raw materials to applications• Failure testing and analysis, including protection mechanisms for catastrophic failure

Thin Films and Coatings Group•Battery materials synthesis and analysis. Research of novel microstructure patterning methods for silicon anodes materials.•Reduced graphene oxide (RGO) coating for fibers to enable electrical detection of wear and impending break.

Development of Graphene Mid-IR detectorsPhD Thesis Title: Low Dimensional Carbon ElectronicsMy PhD thesis work focused on carbon electronics, specifically carbon nanotubes and graphene. -Developed a quantum bit by electrostatically controlling the spin of a single electron. This involved growing carbon nanotubes, characterizing them, and fabricating complex nanoscale structures around them with electron beam lithography and other semiconductor techniques and tools. In order to measure single electron processes, I used a combination of high sensitivity electronics and milli-kelvin temperatures in a dilution refrigerator.-Created a graphene photodetector for far infrared (IR) radiation. These are wavelengths difficult to detect with conventional technologies. We utilized a novel thermoelectric property of graphene and by creating a p-n junction in a graphene ribbon with electrostatic gates, we were able to make a thermopile with high sensitivity to far IR radiation. Characterizing these devices involved creating a confocal scanning laser microscopic for the far IR range which required specialized optics, complex control software and methods to suppress vibration and electronic noise.

Summer project to grow and characterize InAs nanowires with a vapor deposition reactor. -As one of the students setting up a system to grow InAs nanowires with MOCVD, I fabricated electrical and mechanical components in the machine shop, programmed controllers and ran tests to determine if the system functioned properly. I also helped to use TEM to analyze the crystal structure of the nanowires and setup a liquid helium dunker to test the electrical properties at cyrogenic temperatures.

Summer research project in Oskar Painter's lab working on optical microdisk resonators. -My modeling and analysis of the thermal effects, mechanical response and coupled electromagnetic modes in the disk used COMSOL, matlab, and analytical solutions to provide a comprehensive, predictive understanding of the phenomena we could expect. Exploring these solutions indicated a path toward novel, nonlinear effects utilizing optical forces.

Characterization of Chalcogenides for PCRAM applications