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Boston, MA, US

Somerville, Massachusetts, US

Woburn, MA, US

• Led a cross-functional team of 9 members, including managers, principal scientists, engineers, and technicians, in the design, prototyping, testing, and failure mode analysis of advanced lithium batteries. This.
• Managed a team of three direct reports (1 engineer and 2 technicians), overseeing all aspects of cell design across various sizes and form factors. Responsibilities included component engineering, cell assembly.
• Responsible for cell characterization, product strategy, technology roadmaps, resource allocation, and execution.
• Skilled in making data-driven decisions for cell selection and battery system design scenarios, leveraging statistical analysis tools such as Minitab.
• Directed technical and customer engagement with cell and component suppliers.
• Knowledgeable in international standards related to automotive traction batteries (e.g., FMVSS & SAE)

Woburn, MA, US

• Conducted cell-level testing and characterization, including chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, EIS, GITT, and PITT. This encompassed pouch and coin cells with NCM/LFP cathodes and various anodes (Graphite, Si-C.
• Performed experimental characterization of various polymer/solid electrolytes for lithium batteries using techniques such as rheometry, XRD, XPS, NMR, EDS, SEM, DSC, TGA, Raman, and FTIR.
• Designed polymer-sulfide composite cell structures, including separators, cathodes, and anodes, to meet the specific requirements of each component.
• Engineered and prototyped sulfide-based solid-state cells using synthesized lithium-ion-conducting high-dielectric polymers for composite cathodes and separators, achieving a conductivity greater than 1 mS/cm with the.
• Developed machine learning models integrating density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to predict the structures of promising small molecules (e.g., additives) aimed at enhancing the.

• Played a pivotal role in securing a $10M Series Seed II funding round from venture capitalists, directing the development of multicell reactors with a novel aqueous electrolyte for long-duration, grid-scale battery.
• Established the cell building and testing infrastructure within the company, ranging from subscale cells to large multi-cell stacks, for cell-level assessment of in-house prepared aqueous pH-neutral organic electrolytes.
• Led a dynamic, multidisciplinary team in designing and prototyping kilowatt-scale redox flow battery stacks with diverse cell architectures and components, utilizing CNC routers and 3D printing. Focused on enhancing.
• Directed the acquisition of cell battery and design equipment, along with large-scale cell prototyping systems.
• Established ex-situ characterization techniques (e.g., cyclic voltammetry (CV) and rotating disk electrodes (RDE)) for assessing the electrochemical stability of novel organic electrolytes.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Designed, synthesized, and engineered a novel composite polymer-ceramic separator (NASICON-type) for next-generation lithium-based non-aqueous hybrid batteries with Li metal and flowable cathode.
• Developed chemistry-tailored cycling protocols using high-precision coulometry for early detection of degradation in lithium-ion batteries with various electrolyte compositions.
• Invented (in collaboration with other labs at MIT) a conformal and ultrathin polymer coating on porous electrodes for boosting the performance as well as mitigating the degradation in flow batteries.

US

• Designed and built a novel set-up including multiple electrochemical and flow cells capable of measuring the transport properties of vanadium ions and water across multiple types of ion-exchange membranes in real-time.
• Developed concentrated solution theory test protocol (CSTTP) and deduced interaction coefficients to quantify the state-of-charge-dependent diffusivity values for vanadium ions through ion-exchange membranes.
• Designed, analyzed, prototyped, built, and engineered customized cells to conduct in-situ and ex-situ experiments in order to obtain transport and kinetic parameters for VRFBs.
• Developed a model in C++ using high performance programming tools and the most advanced computational libraries (e.g. BLAS, LAPACK, MKL) to simulate the transport of ions and water through ion-exchange membrane based.
• Successfully implemented stable reference electrode for an operating VRFB cell and established real-time potential-distribution diagnostics.
• Developed a physics-based model using the COMSOL software package for simulating the performance of VRFBs at various operating conditions and predicting vanadium ion-distribution across the porous electrodes.

US

• Invented an electrochemical sensor for simultaneous detection of sulfur-based contaminants.
• Improved the sensitivity of the interdigitated sensor by 60% via engineering the structure and configuration of the Cu-based interdigitated mesh.
• Investigated the degradation mechanism of the interdigitated sensor as a function of component materials and under multiple operating conditions.

US

• Developed an array of performance and durability test protocols (with active cooling) for 50cm2 single-cell and 4-cell stack in collaboration with General Motors and W. L. GORE & Associates Inc. for a DOE-funded project.
• Conducted an array of experiments for assessing the performance and durability of standard and direct-coated Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEA) for single-cell and 4-cell stack in collaboration with W. L. GORE &.
• Developed real-time potential-distribution diagnostics to assess the solid-phase potential for various bipolar plates within a 50cm2 4-cell stack.
• Developed an in-house model in C for simulating the effect of temperature gradient on the net water drag and predicting the temperature distribution within system components under multiple relative humidity and.
• Conducted postmortem and failure analysis on PEMFCs (SEM, XPS, ICP-OES).
• Designed an experimental set-up including dew-point temperature sensors to measure the net water drag in real-time under multiple operating conditions.

• Fluid Mechanics (2018 summer semester)
• Fluid Mechanics (2017 summer semester)
• Fluid Mechanics (2016 summer semester)
• Fluid Mechanics (2015 summer semester)
• Engineering Mechanics (2012 summer semester)

• Gained 3+ years of experience as a member of an energetic, cross-functional team designing pump stations, water transmission and distribution systems for multiple mid-size towns.
• Designed surge tanks for multiple pump stations based on a model for simulating water hammer phenomena in pipelines using PVElite, Pipe2000, and Bentley Hammer software packages.

Postdoc, Chemical Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Minor, Computational Sciences

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering