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Greater Seattle Area

• Analyze the data center IT infrastructure and research sustainable practices across the cloud value chain, ranging from sustainable IT hardware design to end-of-life management. Quantify the embodied carbon of IT.
• Led data and methodology for IT infrastructure sustainability assessment, providing enhanced insights into the environmental impact of the cloud value chain.
• Served as a subject matter expert (SME) on IT hardware to develop corporate sustainability initiatives and strategies, influencing the sustainability of IT hardware in data centers.
• Fostered collaborative partnerships with stakeholders from diverse departments and organizations, driving progress in sustainable practices across the cloud value chain.
• Delivered data-driven and scientifically sound outcomes in environmental impact assessment and sustainability accounting.

Greater Denver Area

• As a Research Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, I brought exceptional leadership expertise to the forefront, overseeing multiple projects focused on national household-by-household greenhouse gas (GHG).
• Cultivated and sustained robust partnerships with diverse stakeholders, including cities, states, and industry partners.
• Devised solutions, strategies, and guidelines for a cleaner, sustainable, and equitable energy future.
• Oversaw multiple high-impact and complex projects through entire project life cycle, including ideation, planning, execution, control, and closure.
• Managed project development, data collection/analysis, modeling, project management, stakeholder engagement, quality assurance, backend-frontend coordination, documentation, and final product delivery.
• Launched a couple of public-facing web tools, EVI-Equity and EVI-RoadTrip, by implementing "Vision to Value" framework.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

• As an Energy Systems Modeler at Argonne National Laboratory, I played a pivotal role in spearheading and implementing life cycle assessment (LCA) projects. My focus centered on evaluating economic benefits, trade-offs.
• Executed comprehensive supply-chain and techno-economic analysis of hydrogen and electricity energy systems.
• Analyzed energy production from power plants and petrochemical plants, along with transmission through the electric grid and natural gas pipeline, and distribution via hydrogen refueling stations.

Greater Atlanta Area

• As a Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology, I played a central role in conducting comprehensive economic and environmental life cycle assessments (LCA). My focus was on multi-sectorial.
• Investigated data and methodological challenges associated with variability and uncertainty in life cycle assessment (LCA).
• Evaluated microgrid and distributed energy systems, including combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP), leveraging detailed residential and commercial building energy use profiles.
• Engineered an economic dispatch model for the U.S. electricity generation landscape, integrating spatial and temporal power grid heterogeneity for precise regional and hourly insights.
• Examined water-energy nexus for all electricity generating units (EGUs) in the entire U.S.
• Applied micro-econometrics (e.g., discrete choice modeling) to technology choice projections.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Served as a teaching assistant for Engineering Ethics course for two years.
• Researched energy technology and policy for vehicle electrification, focusing on energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, and total cost of ownership.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Civil Engineering

● Life cycle assessment of energy technologies and systems - vehicles, buildings, and centralized/decentralized power grid

Master Of Science - Ms, Public Policy Analysis

● Energy and environmental policy

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

● Robot dynamics and control

Bachelor'S Degree, Maritime Engineering

● Fluid mechanics (experimental and computational)