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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Leading the development of digitally-enabled solutions in the electric power industry. Leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive step changes in improvements in operational efficiency.

San Francisco Bay Area

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Waltham, Ma

Greater Boston Area

•Modeling and simulation of advanced bubbling fluidized bed biomass gasification processes to produce renewable liquid fuels•Developed several custom high fidelity multi-scale, multi-physics numerical simulations in MATLAB. •Validated multi-fluid gas-solid fluidization simulations on high performance computing clusters.

Greater Boston Area

•Analyzed and modeled biomass pretreatment thermodynamics, kinetics, heat and mass transfer issues.•Applied modeling results to determine optimal conditions and gasification integration options.•Coded finite difference solver to visualize biomass torrefaction reaction rates. •Provided technical briefings, seminars, and reports to BP research and development executives.

Naperville, Il

•Performed rigorous technical and economic feasibility assessments for two novel biofuel conversion routes.•Communicated results to a multi-disciplinary field of reaction engineering, heterogeneous catalysis, and process analysis experts enabling critical decision-making during a major research program gate review

•Updated, expanded, and improved accuracy of my previously developed model.•Added long-term forecasting capability to the model.•Integrated and applied research in a wide variety of fields including hydrology, power engineering, policy, economics, data analysis, and statistics.

•Led team of four MIT engineering undergraduates to win second place and $3000 in MADMEC III competition. •Co-invented, designed, and tested a working alpha prototype of highly promising novel CO2 scrubbing process. •Performed initial patent search and independently filed provisional patent application (October 7, 2010).•Secured over $14,000 in grant funding from various organizations;

•Devised a model of the multibillion dollar 24,000 MW hydroelectric Federal Columbia River Power System generating accurate near-real-time data and short-term forecasts of key operational and generation parameters•Provided due diligence of company model acquisitions, resulting in avoided costs greater than $100,000.

•Performed on-site assessment of campus rooftop wind resource using robust engineering and survey techniques. •Presented results to MIT Facilities Department and Cambridge city councillors in May 2007•Researched and designed experiments to test building aerodynamic effects on rooftop wind turbines.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Zeta Psi, MIT Electric Vehicle Team, MIT Energy Club

High School

Education record