Autonomous and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (Al Faruque's Lab)

- Led a multidisciplinary team of 65 in developing UCI’s first solar-powered EV for the American Solar Challenge.- Successfully led fundraising efforts and removed obstacles for the team, raising $30k through corporate sponsorships and donations, and securing manufacturing space and industry mentors to help the engineering team.- Established better development practices that improved team productivity and communication and achieved 90% of project milestones on time, including structured lead meetings, feature prioritization, and tradeoff evaluations.- Oversaw the project lifecycle, managing budget and timeline using Work Breakdown Structure and dependency.- Reorganized team structure and developed a new recruitment and onboarding process with tutorial videos, orientations, and team socials, resulting in a smoother transition and a 40% increase in member satisfaction.- Successfully obtained $13k from The Green Initiative Fund and awarded UCI Research Experience Fellowship.

- Plan and host the members’ initiation, meetings, social events, professional events, and community services.- Initiated affiliation with school career departments, boosting club visibility and increase membership by 160%.- Communicate with the school, professors, and other engineering clubs for funding and event collaborations.

- Research and design the satellite communication software system, and prototyped using RFM98PW transceiver.- Conducted trade study and performed software requirement analysis for the satellite communication system.

Organize social events, create Google form and QR code for event registration

- Raised over 2000 USD for the club through event hosting, fundraiser, and sponsorship from local business.- Collaborated with New York Times Bestselling author Abigail Hing Wen to organize and host a film screening event at UC Irvine.

- Understand computer networks, mechanisms of Mesh WiFi systems, and characteristics of EasyMesh standard.- Based on the open-source project prplMesh, conducting research and developing an improved algorithm that incorporates access point load balancing and enhances the optimal path selection speed.- Leveraged knowledge in C++ programming, Git, Linux, Docker, Putty, OpenWrt, and Wireshark.

Learning Assistant for ICS 6B (Boolean Logic and Discrete Structures)

- Taught over 30 K-12 students to accomplish personal projects with techniques involving soldering, 3D printing, Arduino and Raspberry Pi programming, lego robotics (NXT), and Unity game designing.- Maintaining the computer hardware system, Wi-fi network, and other technology used in the classroom.

This start-up company focuses on developing proximity sensors utilizing direct ToF system.- Reduced the data transmission time under UART protocol by 60% using LZW compression.- Developed a program that converts raw data from dToF sensor into depth map images, which served as a helpful program for visualizing the sensor performance and showcasing their product to stakeholders and customers.- Utilized skills in Git, NumPy, Matplotlib, Xlwings, Time-of-Flight, programmed in Python using Eclipse.

1. Teach American English and culture through posts and videos on Instagram and Tik Tok (over 4.5k followers)2. Make illustration posts with Photoshop; conceive scripts, direct shooting, performing, and narrating3. Edit and produce over 150 videos and gain approximately 2M views worldwide4. Hosted weekly virtual sessions for practicing English speaking

1. Design and implement electronic circuits containing impedance matching, filtering, amplification, power supply, and signal measurement.2. Design and construct optical modules, such as optical imaging, beam focusing and shaping, optical delay line, optical spectrometer, power measurement, and time profile measurement.3. Integrate electrical and optical modules into a system and write LabVIEW programs to control instruments, receive data, and process data.

Participate in the research of developing GeSn-on-Si photodiodes and lasers1. Set up vacuum systems with vacuum chambers, vacuum feedthroughs, vacuum pumps, and vacuum gauges. Conduct leak detection.2. Design mechanical parts, perform machining, and assemble fluid pipelines.3. Operate and characterize various lasers, such as diode laser, Nd: YAG pulsed laser, and CW fiber laser.4. Perform various materials fabrication techniques, including pulsed vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, spin-coating, electrophoretic deposition, thermal evaporation, UV-ozone treatment, and laser annealing.5. Conduct various materials characterization techniques, including scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, elemental analysis with energy-dispersive spectrometry, atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction, UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and optical microscopy.