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Phoenix, AZ, US

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Graduate Research Assistant throughout my M.S. and Ph.D. work with Dr. Ro Cusick in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
• Machine Learning Based Full Scale Crystallization Modelling
• Probing physical mechanisms of struvite crystal growth and dissolution processes
• Plantwide wastewater treatment modelling to reveal implications of fines loss in struvite precipitation
• Recovering organic phosphorus through calcium phytate precipitation

Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Student research position at the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology and the Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics at Arizona State University.
• Work under the supervision of a PhD student in the Cesar Torres and Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown research labs
• Studied the ecology and prevalence of microbial chain elongation in soil microcosms
• Investigated electrokinetic ion transport and calcium carbonate precipitation in soils for dust mitigation and stabilization

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Summer undergraduate research at the Center for Nanoscale Systems at Harvard University as part of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure.
• Nanoscale photonless optical imaging of 2D structures using Photoinduced Force Microscopy
• Determined correlation between photoinduced forces and molybdenum disulfide mono- and bilayers

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Summer undergraduate research position with the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Worked under supervision of a Ph.D. student in the John Rogers and Bill Wilson research groups
• Assisted in development of a technique that removes metallic CNTs from an aligned semiconducting CNT array
• Atomic force microscopy and SEM were used to confirm success rate of the microwave purification technique

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Civil And Environmental Engineering

In my Ph.D. I will reassess known struvite crystallization mechanisms (with a focus on nucleation) with new techniques that emphasize the.

Master Of Science - Ms, Civil And Environmental Engineering

In my master's thesis I focused on characterizing the dissolution rate of struvite. My research highlighted the need to account for.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Active in ASCE 2016 & 2017.During my undergraduate program at ASU in chemical engineering, I did research under.