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College Station, TX, US

• Instructed over 200 undergraduate engineering students in the principles of material science, emphasizing practical applications through ASTM-standardized testing to assess and compare material properties of metals and.
• Educating students on proper operation of machinery, laboratory documentation, data analysis, and conclusion drawing from experimental results, ensuring a thorough understanding of scientific methodology and.
• Conducted maintenance and troubleshooting on laboratory equipment, effectively managing operational issues and coordinating requests for replacement parts and additional materials.
• Axial Tensile Testing, Notch-Toughness Charpy Impact Testing, Microhardness and Rockwell Hardness Testing, Case Depth Determination, Etching for Microstructure Analysis, Jominy End-Quench Test for Hardenability.

• Created and validated models using fractional PDEs for heat flow, fluid flow, and vibrations.
• Delivered weekly presentations on research progress and future strategies, effectively communicating complex concepts.
• Designed and implemented new algorithms for numerically solving fractional differential equations using MATLAB and developed a new analytic result, driving significant advancements in the research project.
• Generated detailed figures from simulations and am currently co-drafting a research paper, demonstrating strong skills in data visualization and technical writing.

• Tutoring students taking MATH courses (College Algebra - Differential Equations), General Chemistry I & II, and College & University Physics I both online and in-person.
• Earned the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) Level 2 Certification
• Create learning resources for students and tutors and give presentations of content review.
• Attend professional development workshops and discuss tutoring strategies to optimize learning.

• Worked in a team of 5 that developed MATLAB and FORTRAN script to perform high precision computations for solutions to MEMS models of nonlinear cantilever beam vibrations.
• Designed and implemented algorithms to generate large matrices, effectively modeling system behavior and producing approximate solutions to a complex engineering system.
• Derived analytic expressions for natural frequencies and modes of vibration using a perturbation method.

• Independent research of mathematical physics: Cluster Algebras for finite-dimensional spaces and their application in discrete integrable systems with lattice representations.
• Discovered cluster algebra patterns in 1D & 2D KdV equation and Hirota-Miwa equation.
• Presented research summary at math conference at UT Dallas.
• Attended professional development workshops and Math-GRE examinations.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0

Associate Of Science - As, Biology, General, 3.80