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Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Investigate failures of building materials and solve technically challenging problems in the built worlds as a materials scientist at Janney Technical Center.Apply various analytical techniques including chemical analysis, microscopy, thermal analysis, and physical testing to solve construction materials problems for pipes, sealants, waterproofing, coatings, glasses, and concretes.

Aurora, Il

Provide strategy and technical expertise for development, validation, and transfer of CMP pads with Ox/W/Ce slurries. Establish advanced metrology capabilities to predict end user performance and deliver solutions to customers, including enhanced product life, improved quality, and fluid transport simulation.• Developed polyurethane-based formulations (TSU, TPU, UV-curable) and processes for CMP pads.• Delivered 3 new product design and resolved customer technical issues: Intel, Samsung, Hynix • Built up new in-house capabilities of advanced metrology and improved quality control lab• Managed collaboration with suppliers to improve quality and develop products, including raw materials, nanoparticles, adhesives, subpads, and conditioners• Delegated to represent the company to CMP-C task force for SEMI standards and published 4 new standards for CMP pads

Chicago, Il

Lead analytical efforts to ensure new product design and specification, manufacturability, quality and reliability. Perform constructional analysis and new product evaluation, validate materials, test, process, and launch timely. Deliver unbreakable smartphones and wearable devices.• Achieved technical breakthrough by leading materials engineering for new components, materials, and processing in the area of display, imager, flex, IC, solder, connector, plating, electrical and electromechanical components, adhesives, molding, coating / painting, and film.• Conducted failure analysis, improving quality by corrective actions and design reinforcement.• Executed technical audit of major suppliers and manufacturing risk assessment for future product proactively, collaborated with suppliers and provided onsite technical support, improving process capability, DOE, failure analysis, and corrective actions at factories in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.• Improved analytical capabilities by developing technical roadmap, evaluating top-notch metrology capabilities (spectroscopy, microscopy, thermal analysis, rheological), and introducing cutting-edge equipment (C-SAM, X-ray, SEM / EDS, DSC / TGA / TMA / DMA, goniometer, and 3D profilometer).

Gaithersburg, Md

Initiated and led scientific efforts of nanotechnology projects in polymers division. Identified industry needs and developed advanced metrology for physical, chemical, optical, and mechanical properties using combinatorial method, surface engineering, microscopy, x-ray, and neutron. Managed labs and trained 15 users.• Delivered high-throughput enabling and 3-D structure forming fabrication methods of nanopatterns to semiconductor industry by developing atmosphere-controlled or surface-engineered processes with advanced metrology to probe nanopatterns combining microscopy, x-ray reflectivity, and neutron scattering.• Provided innovative materials technology to improve energy storage device performance by controlling heterogeneous interfacial structures in fuel cell and battery systems for better water permeation and electron transport.• Strengthened nanoimprinting technology by delivering thermo-mechanical measurement and interface detection methods of nanocomposite thin films.• Pioneered nanoparticle application for medical device development by unraveling adsorption behavior on biological surfaces and creating UVO-tunable gradient wettability.

Subject matter expert of advanced insulation materials and processing.• Developed engineering resin-based insulation products (7 patents and IR52 Chang Young-shil award).• Commercialized 2 next-generation electrical products; led product development and specification and met customer and regulatory certifications in railroad, marine, airplane, and defense. • Advised Skill and Six Sigma teams on flame-retardant insulation materials and processing, resolving business-critical technical problems for cost reduction, quality, and reliability. • Built 2 processing capabilities and introduced 3 testing capabilities; developed network with external expert groups and supervised analytical team.

Completed multiple projects for industry product development: aerospace, electronics, dental, construction, tougheners, membrane, gels- Developed new polymer composites and characterization techniques: microscopy, thermal analysis, rheology, mechanical testing, light scattering, acoustic- Particle synthesis and characterization, polymerization (radical and anionic), gelation, extrusion, injection molding- Maintained characterization lab for 4 years and trained 7 users

Research Fellow, Advanced Materials

Key integrator of engineering new materials for RGB true color display and developing characterization techniques. • Delivered materials.

Phd, Materials Science

Studied relationships between the microstructure and fracture behavior of polymer composite materials - Thermal and viscoelastic analysis.