Support TDK Ventures' investment practice in cleantech and advanced materials

REsurety is a mission-driven organization focused on enabling more profitable clean energy through better risk management. At the intersection of physical science, big data and financial engineering, our products and services enable our clients to better understand and mitigate the risks inherent to reliance on the weather as a fuel source.As a high-growth, profitable company that has already supported over 5,000 MW of transactions, we are a small team making a big impact! Our award-winning work for some of the world’s leading insurers, clean power producers and clean power consumers includes the 2016 North American Wind Deal of the Year and the 2017 Weather Risk Deal of the Year.

Helping biosynthetic natural gas technology developers (bioSNG) assess the bioenergy potential in India: • Mine Indian biowaste distribution data from remote satellite images and census statistics• Clean and refine geospatial data using machine learning based regression analysis • Design an online geographic information system (GIS) web application to visualize high-resolution national bioenergy potential distribution• Conduct geospatial and network analysis to determine potential locations of biomass suppliers, storage centers and biorefineries

Building an optimization model to determine the profitability and sustainability of bioSNG technology in Indian market: • Construct mixed-integer linear optimization models to determine the optimal scale, location, and configuration of biosynthetic natural gas (bioSNG) technology• Conduct well-to-wheel analysis of bioSNG production processes• Evaluate clean fuel production technologies' long-term economic viability

Lighting the world: Scaling Innovative Energy Access Solutions

Help lab instructor to direct organic chemistry labs by providing directions and help to students during lab session and grading students' lab reports.

My research focuses on improving the hydrophilicity of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) , which is a material has diverse biomedical applications, such as contact lens, pacemaker encapsulant, artificial skin and etc. The modification method used in our lab is to adsorb poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVOH) onto PDMS substrate. The effectiveness of the method is characterized by various analytical instruments, including ellipsometer, goniometer and atomic force microscope.

In order to examine the effect of climate change on the physiology and life habits of fiddler crabs on the east coast. Our lab group collected fiddler crabs along the east coast. Inside the lab, we compared the body structures and health conditions of these fiddler crabs collected from different locations and time periods, and by analyzing the data, we reach a conclusion on how has climate influenced these marine residents.

• Fabricate two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using chemical vapor deposition for flexible electronics, energy storage and harvesting as well as electrochemical catalysis• Characterize the fabricated material using an atomic force microscope and Raman spectroscopy