Investing in early-stage startups.Investments:BioDrive (pre-seed)Gigablue (seed)Ucaneo (seed)

Engineered calcium-sensing proteins for future applications in ultrasonic brain imaging. Developed high-throughput screening methods and in vivo applications for ultrasonic genetically encodable molecular biosensors.Advisor: Mikhail Shapiro

Explored strategies to expand the toolbox that cells use to interpret information and build proteins.Identified novel quadruplet decoding tRNAs for expanding the genetic code.Advisor: Ahmed Badran

Developed tools to enable nanobionic plant engineering for in-field applications. Created smartphone camera-based stomata detection device. Manuscript titled "Emerging investigator series: linking nanoparticle infiltration and stomatal dynamics for plant nanobionics" published in Environmental Science: Nano (doi.org/10.1039/D1EN01154E)Advisor: Michael Strano

PolyJoule is an energy storage startup spun out of breakthrough conductive polymer research from MIT. Designed and built prototype for PolyJoule's most successful large scale anode production process to date.

Investigated the mechanisms controlling sodium-air battery discharge capacity and performance.Characterized effects of electrolyte modification on discharge capacity, discharge product size, and battery cyclability of Na-air batteries.Manuscript titled "Tuning NaO2 Cube Sizes by Controlling Na+ and Solvent Activity in Na–O2 Batteries" published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b05418).Advisor: Yang Shao-Horn

Engineered novel phosphorus adsorbent for treatment of toxic algal blooms. Characterized phosphorus adsorbent's ability to recycle phosphorus as a slow release fertilizer. First author manuscript titled "Functionalizing biochar with Mg–Al and Mg–Fe layered double hydroxides for removal of phosphate from aqueous solutions" published in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2016.11.039).Research won top awards at the Regeneron Science Talent… Show more Engineered novel phosphorus adsorbent for treatment of toxic algal blooms. Characterized phosphorus adsorbent's ability to recycle phosphorus as a slow release fertilizer. First author manuscript titled "Functionalizing biochar with Mg–Al and Mg–Fe layered double hydroxides for removal of phosphate from aqueous solutions" published in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2016.11.039).Research won top awards at the Regeneron Science Talent Search and Intel International Science and Engineering FairAdvisor: Bin Gao Show less