Ted Yoo Email & Phone Number

I am the host and producer of the podcast This Grad Life, a show about the lives of brilliant and wayward grad students and the research that they do. Each episode features a current or ex-grad student, and we hope to highlight the humanity behind the science. I'm happy to have served 1000 unique listens with my small time show.

• Invented and implemented the core sensing algorithm and created prototype sensors tested in humans with MARD scores of < 12%
• Conceived a Python module and assisted development of a NoSQL database to process +20GB of data daily
• Accelerated the development cycles by reducing analysis time by at least 75% by enabling novel analysis methods that were previously impossible or outside current imagination
• Presented key data to board members and investors, helping raise an estimated $14 million in venture funding.
• Facilitated due diligence meetings for the potential sale of company, cataloging over 2 terabytes of data
• Mentored four interns over the course of two years, two have moved onto graduate study

• Supervised and on-boarded 13 direct reports over two years and managed a team consisted of two technicians, two engineers, and two interns
• Hosted lunch and learn sessions to help breakdown complex sensor physics, or to teach general topics in Python or sensor specific biophysics
• Expedited sensor development via FEA modeling, simulating fluid flow and reaction diffusion kinetics

• Part of cross functional tiger teams as a subject matter expert in molecular chemistry and physics
• Performed test methods validation and wrote technical summaries that proved operational tolerance to be less than 5%
• Devised graphs and analysis boards to help explain conclusions three times a week at cross functional meetings

• Developed a custom fluorescence microscopy test system, replete with fixtures, precise fluid control, and automated sampling capable of running 24/7
• Capable of testing 80 sensors under controlled temperature, oxygen saturation, and glucose concentration

• Wrote over 40 episodes for the nationally syndicated science radio show across a broad range of disciplines including, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, and anthropology
• Acted as managing editor ultimately responsible for around 80 episodes in total

• Trained 75+ graduate students to give 10 minute talks to a general audience
• Taught skills necessary to balance simplifying a complex topic without "dumbing it down"
• Acted as community organizer, assuring an audience for these grad students

• Taught first and second year undergraduate physics labs with an average class size of 24 while continuing previous undergraduate research
• Topics include mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism

• Wrote critical Python code to examine percolation thresholds on lattices with low coordination numers
• Mentored two interns, and co-authored two papers

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Science

Dissertation: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Regarding the Role of Dibutyl Phosphoric Acid on Supramolecular Assembly in Solvent.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

Senior Thesis: Mechanical Analogue of Anderson Localization in Springs

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Culinary Arts/Chef Training